My conjecture is that, although anyone can write auto-biographically, only the ones by the good authors are the really worth reading. Testing this theory I took up Going Solo by Roald Dahl. If anything it proved to me that a good biography has strong voice and that makes any biographical events worth reading.
Here is a passage that I quite enjoyed:
"I smiled weakly at the Major as he went prancing by, but I didn't pull back. I wanted to see him again. There was something rather admirable about the way he was galloping round and round the deck with no clothes on at all, something wonderfully innocent and unembarrassed and cheerful and friendly. And here I was, a bundle of youthful self-consciousness, gaping at him through the porthole and disapproving quite strongly of what he was doing. But I was also envying him. I was actually jealous of his total don't-give a-damn attitude, and I wished like mad that I myself had the guts to go out there and do the same."
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