Non-Fiction
In reply to the discussion: Has anyone read the new James Patterson memoir "Stories of My Life" ? [View all]anobserver2
(922 posts)He left Vanderbilt in 1970. It wasn't until 1971 he started his job in advertising.
Prior to this new memoir coming out, I read somewhere that his new memoir would reveal he "drove a NYC taxi cab"
But that his "hair was too long" and he was "fired" or something like that.
But none of that appears in the memoir.
I also read his "fans" have been "asking" for this memoir. However, this memoir says he wrote it for his own ego, or words to that effect.
So the reason for this memoir, based on earlier promotion I recall seeing, has really changed.
With a reported net worth of $800 million, he now wants desperately to have a "Working Class Hero" image but - in his new memoir he doesn't want to tell you how he could afford to live in NYC for that year, from 1970-1971.