“‘Always live your life with your biography in mind,’ Dad was fond of saying.”
― Marisha Pessl, Special Topics in Calamity Physics 

Give dad one of these fine biographies to tide him over while you pen your memoir.

Marilyn and Me: A Photographer’s Memories, by Lawrence Schiller
Fearless, by Eric Blehm
Yours in Truth: A Personal Portrait of Ben Bradlee, by Jeff Himmelman
Birdseye: The Adventures of a Curious Man, by Mark Kurlansky
Not Taco Bell Material, by Adam Carolla
My Happy Days in Hollywood, by Garry Marshall 
The Great Northern Express, by Howard Frank Mosher