Thank you to all that took part in this #poll.

@bibliolater @bookstondon

Depends. Who are you? Can you write? The most important is the second one. A boring life, well written, can be interesting. Terrible writing is terrible, period.

@bibliolater @bookstondon Not necessarily but it can often be.

@bibliolater @bookstondon Good question. Writing an auto-bio isn't inherently pretentious, but posterity will be the judge of whether it's worth reading. What is pretentious, I think, is hiring a ghost-writer to actually write it, and then putting your name on it as author. The proper thing to do if you're an interesting person but can't write well is to hire someone and pay them well to write it for you and let them be named as author. #latetotheparty