autobiographer

[Laurence Horn]

At 8:27 AM -0700 9/6/07, Jonathan Lighter wrote:
>Steve Fosset's "autobiographer" was on Fox News just now.
>
>   Explanation: he is "co-author of Fosset's autobiography."
>
>   To his credit, he did not describe himself as an "autobiographer."
>Too bad I didn't catch his name.
>
>   JL

Perhaps Fossett was just following the hoary precept, "The man who
writes his own autobiography has a fool for an autobiographee".

LH

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