Shatner biography?

[kickinitoldschool]

I don't know if this belongs here or in the TOS forums, so feel free to move this if it's in the wrong spot.

Are there any good Shatner biographies? I've been watching a lot of Boston Legal lately, and he's actually pretty good in it. This has sparked a new interest in Shatner and was wondering if anyone had a suggestion for a good one (if there is only one, feel free to let me know).

 

[David cgc]

I thought his autobiography, Up Till Now, was pretty entertaining.

 

[Steve Roby]

Are there any good Shatner biographies? I've been watching a lot of Boston Legal lately, and he's actually pretty good in it. This has sparked a new interest in Shatner and was wondering if anyone had a suggestion for a good one (if there is only one, feel free to let me know).

Shatner has three autobiographies, the first two specifically about Star Trek (Star Trek Memories and Star Trek Movie Memories), the third more general and much more recent (Up Till Now).

There's also Captain Quirk, an unauthorized biography by Dennis William Hauck published in 1995. I haven't read it yet, but it looks like a generic celeb bio produced by researching magazine and newspaper articles rather than doing new interviews and research.

And finally there are two editions of Robert Schnakenberg's Encyclopedia Shatnerica, which is not a conventional biography but which you may find entertaining.

 

[Therin of Andor]

There's also Captain Quirk, an unauthorized biography by Dennis William Hauck...

And finally there are two editions of Robert Schnakenberg's Encyclopedia Shatnerica

You forgot the classic "Shatner: Where No Man..." by Marshak & Culbreath (1979)! Need I elaborate on its... um... greatness?
http://www.amazon.com/Shatner-Where-No-Man/dp/0441889751

 

[trevanian]

There's also Captain Quirk, an unauthorized biography by Dennis William Hauck...

And finally there are two editions of Robert Schnakenberg's Encyclopedia Shatnerica

You forgot the classic "Shatner: Where No Man..." by Marshak & Culbreath (1979)! Need I elaborate on its... um... greatness?
http://www.amazon.com/Shatner-Where-No-Man/dp/0441889751

It's okay to laugh about the pretentiousness of the 'shatner is kirk/shatner is alphamale' stuff, but there's important material too. It is the first place outside of David Gerrold that I read somebody acknowledge just how important Gene Coon was to the show (I think the quote was something like, 'by leaps and bounds above everybody else'), and that was probably a decade ahead of any other bts books giving Coon even that much credit.

Plus there is a great 40 page chapter of Nimoy and Shatner talking, so it ain't all highminded foolishness.

 

[Man of Steel]

Hey,

I enjoyed the biography. It was charming, funny and interesting.

 

[Steve Roby]

You forgot the classic "Shatner: Where No Man..." by Marshak & Culbreath (1979)!

Hmm... trauma-induced repressed memory, perhaps?

 

[Dayton Ward]

You forgot the classic "Shatner: Where No Man..." by Marshak & Culbreath (1979)! Need I elaborate on its... um... greatness?
http://www.amazon.com/Shatner-Where-No-Man/dp/0441889751

Yes. Yes I had.

So, you know...thanks for bringing that up. If anybody's looking for me, I'll be stabbing railroad spikes into my skull, trying to pick out that memory once and for all.