A Liar's Autobiography
Volume IV
Graham Chapman
Graham Chapman, who died in October 1989, reveals in his autobiography what it was like to be part of the revolutionary and zany Monty Python team
Required reading for Monty Python fans. This true and false memoir is Graham Chapman's own hilarious account of his life as a Python and as a homosexual. The book equals Joe Orton's famous Diaries in providing an unblushing account of a gay lifestyle linked to entertainment. It is reissued to commemorate the tenth anniversary of Chapman's death and the thirtieth anniversary of Monty Python's Flying Circus. Full of outrageous fictions and touching truths, in telling surreal and outrageous lies Graham Chapman often uncovers a truth about himself and colleagues. The story it relates of the author - whether as mountaineer or medical student (he was a doctor); actor or alcoholic (he was both); heterosexual goupie-guzzler or homosexual coming to terms with himself (bit of both) - form a surreal and crowded mosaic that is funny, disturbing and moving by turns. A minor cult classic by a major comic talent, now back in print after many years of dormancy. "It is, as one critic put it, an 'intercoursingly good book'." (A Fleet Street Hack)
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About Graham Chapman Graham Chapman's education and vocational training occurred variously n such places as the Midlands, Eton, Cambridge, St Swithin's hospital, on tour in a revue with John Cleese in New Zealand and on the island of Ibiza with David Frost. He also wrote for Monty Python, and the TV shows Doctor in the House and helped to found Gay News.
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