During a newspaper interview with Gen. Chuck Yeager in 1989 in San Diego, I asked him about this book, which had just come out a couple years earlier. He told me that Jackie Cochran had nothing to do with this purported autobiography. Cochran had died in 1980, and this book came out in 1987. Yeager - who was a close friend of Cochran and ranks her as one of the best pilots who ever lived - said she didn't leave a manuscript, nor a journal nor a diary. I asked him point-blank if the book was a lie, and he gave me a look and said, "Just think about what I said." This book was likely an assemblage of Cochran's quotes from magazine and newspaper interviews she gave through the years, and I have no reason to believe that the words are not her own. But to package it as an "autobiography" seems to me a bit of a stretch.