2011 Audie Finalist, Distinguished Achievement in Production. Reflecting on his life with amusement and melancholy, the humorist offers an intimate look at his childhood, ponders his writing career, and recalls the joy and the pain of being a husband and a father. Beginning in 1906, he dictated a long and complex autobiographical manuscript. He published selected chapters from this extensive dictation in the North American Review in 26 installments, which are all included here.