I love the memoir genre. Just so easy to read a one-off story that tells somebody's life and who they are, or at least who they want you to think they are. I've read introductions in books like Juiced or If I Did It where the ghostwriter tells the horrifying stories of trying to get their subjects like Canseco and Simpson to sit down for interviews so they could write their books for them and it being like pulling teeth. We know lugheads like Canseco or Simpson didn't sit down at their computer for one second to write those types of books, but what are some examples where you can tell the celebrity DID do the work themselves?

For all its faults I thought it seemed clear Matthew Perry did the writing himself on his tell-all. The voice was unmistakably his and filled with the types of mistakes that a professional wouldn't have put in their in the first place. Drew Carey in the introduction to his memoir Dirty Jokes and Beer mentions insisting on writing his book himself against his agent's wishes, and broadcaster Al Michaels mentions something similar about writing the book being like getting 18 root canals. The voice and familiar phrases are all so signature Al that I'm convinced the old man stubbornly did it himself. Given he wrote, "The Audacity of Hope" well before he was famous I think it's safe to assume Barack put in the work himself on "Promised Land" as well.

What are some other exampes?