What was the name of Salvador Dalí’s 1942 autobiography?

Salvador Dalí’s 1942 autobiography was titled The Secret Life of Salvador Dalí.

The book presents Dalí’s childhood, artistic development, ambitions, relationships, and highly theatrical account of his public persona. It was written with the assistance of the poet and journalist André Parinaud and became one of the principal sources for Dalí’s self-created mythology.

Readers should treat the autobiography as an artistic and autobiographical performance rather than as a neutral chronological record. Dalí was famous for exaggeration, provocation, and carefully staged self-presentation, so some stories are shaped as much by his persona as by conventional memoir.

The book appeared in 1942, during the period when Dalí was living in the United States. It is sometimes confused with Diary of a Genius, a later book published in 1964, but the earlier autobiography has “Secret Life” in its title.