An autobiography by any other name

There's a new trend to give autobiographies silly titles. But can you match the titles in our quiz to the celebrity?

The publishing brainboxes who dreamed up the title of the Apple founder's authorised biography were presumably delighted that iSteve: The Book of Jobs works on so many levels. But seldom has a title been so excruciating on every one of them.

Still, at least the name of Steve Jobs's book gives some clue about the contents therein. The compulsion to ape various comics' tossed-off tomes with a punning title is increasingly leading to otherwise serious autobiographies being given a title with a double meaning that has no meaning (step forward Christopher Hitchens and Hitch-22) or just an achingly dull joke.

Then again, there is something lovable about a spectacularly awful pun. So in tribute to iSteve, can you match the following silly titles with the authors pictured above?

1 Dear Fatty

2 Look Back in Hunger

3 Cider with Roadies

4 Me and My Mouth

5 Trowel and Error

6 My Shit Life So Far

ANSWERS

1D Dawn French; 2E Jo Brand; 3B Stuart Maconie; 4F Austin Healey; 5A Alan Titchmarsh; 6C Frankie Boyle

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Patrick Barkham

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