A Liar's Autobiography: Volume VI

A Liar's Autobiography: Volume VI
The book's front cover is illustrated with a Gilliamesque caricature of Graham Chapman. Seen from the midsection up, a blank-faced Chapman draws open the jacket of a British police uniform to reveal a bare chest. A pipe juts sideways from the right side of his mouth.
Front cover
AuthorGraham Chapman
IllustratorJohnathan Hills
Cover artistJohnathan Hills
LanguageEnglish
SubjectAutobiography
PublisherEyre Methuen
Publication date
16 October 1980
Publication placeEngland
Media typePrint (hardcover)
Pages239
ISBN0-413-47570-0
OCLC256519801
828/.91407
LC ClassPN2598.C27 A35 1980

A Liar's Autobiography: Volume VI is a comical autobiography written by Graham Chapman of Monty Python fame, featuring a fictionalised account of his life. First published in Britain in 1980, it was republished in 1991, 1999 and 2011.[1]

Unusually for an autobiography, the work is credited inside to 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. It is not known how much material the other writers contributed. The book was re-released in 1991 with an afterword by Eric Idle, which has been included in all subsequent releases.[2]

A semi-sequel, Calcium Made Interesting, was released in 2005.

  1. ^ Chapman, Graham (2011). A Liar's Autobiography. England: Methuen Publishing Ltd. p. 248. ISBN 978-0-413-77728-7.
  2. ^ Chapman, Graham (1991). A Liar's Autobiography. United Kingdom: Mandarin. p. 240. ISBN 978-0-7493-0817-9.