David Niven's Autobiography

Big Bond Fan

Has anyone read David Niven's autobiography?

If so, would you please message me.

(Apologies if this is in the wrong section. I thought it was related to literature.)

Barbel

Yes, I've read both "The Moon's A Balloon" and "Bring On The Empty Horses". Very entertaining.

Zingari

I've read 'Moon's a Balloon' and very entertaining.

Napoleon Plural

As entertaining is Sheridan Morley's Dark Side of the Moon a bio of Niven that provides another (sympathetic) angle on just how truthful or not his autobiography was. There also Niv, which is less sympathetic, more dirt digging.

Barbel

Neither "Moon" or "Horses" are very accurate as autobiography, although they are very enjoyable to read. Niven was a great raconteur and was understandably prone to "improve" his stories over many years of telling them. There's very little outright lying, of course- for example, in his tale of sharing a house with Errol Flynn which was nicknamed "Cirrhosis-by-the-sea" it is true that he was there for a time but Flynn mostly shared that with actor Robert Coote (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Coote) rather than Niven.