A Liar's Autobiography

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A Liar's Autobiography (Volume VI) is a mostly true, though outlandishly told, accounting of the life of Graham Chapman of Monty Python fame. First published in Britain in 1980, it was republished in 1999 (ISBN 0-416-00901-8).

Unusually for an autobiography, it has five authors: Chapman, his partner David Sherlock, Alex Martin, Douglas Adams, and David A. Yallop. Adams' sole contribution was in the form of a sketch written by himself and Chapman for the television pilot Out of the Trees, which was rewritten for the book in the first person and passed off as a real event. The '99 re-released version contains a foreword by Eric Idle.

A semi-sequel, Graham Crackers: Fuzzy Memories, Silly Bits, and Outright Lies, was released in 1997.

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• A Monty Python audio page which included 45 minutes of an unused audio tape of the book as read by Chapman

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