If Hunter Davies is going to write Sean's life story, surely that will be a biography.
Only Sean can write his "auto"biography.
Isn't that right?
(I know about ghost writers but they don't usually get billing for the event in the same way this guy is)
That kind of "auto"biography became very fashionable in Germany recently. Loads of C- and D-class celebrities in Germany recently published such things, but most of them still aren't worth the paper they're printed on. (the authors are then listed as "so-and-so with so-and so", in our case "Sir Sean Connery with Hunter Davies").
In doing so, there's a little hope left that the biography may become a good read. The problem is that most celebs are uncapable of writing two coherent sentences (not that I want to assume that this is the case with Sir Sean), and that it would take ages for a rather unexperienced writer to bring his life story to paper (and Connery would loose his interest in this kind of hard work rather quickly if he had to do it all by himself). Also, there is the problem that the celebs themselves don't remember everything and sometimes are not even aware what is interesting for the public and what not. Not that this method wasn't used before (I guess that 95% of the so called autobiographies were in fact written by ghostwriters), but nowadays, they admit it frankly. Better to seek professional help than to make oneself completely ridiculous, isn't it?
Hunter Davies, an interesting choice. I do remember him first and foremost as a Beatles expert, but it must have been some 15 years since I read his first Beatles bio...
