Dancing the Dream Dancing the Dream Dancing the Dream is a 1992 book of poems and reflections written by the American recording artist Michael Jackson. His second book, it followed his 1988 autobiography "Moonwalk". "Dancing the Dream" was dedicated to his mother, Katherine, and Deepak Chopra. Its foreword was written by Jackson's friend, the actress Elizabeth Taylor. The book also contains an assortment of around 100 photographs of Jackson. "Dancing the Dream" was published by Doubleday on June 18, 1992, seven months after the release of Jackson's 1991 "Dangerous" album. It was not a significant commercial success. The book was reissued by the
Autobiography conformed to them. Another autobiography of the period is "De vita propria", by the Italian mathematician, physician and astrologer Gerolamo Cardano (1574). It is often claimed that the earliest known autobiography in English is the early 15th-century "Book of Margery Kempe", describing among other things Kempe's pilgrimage to the Holy Land and visit to Rome although it is, at best, only a partial autobiography and arguably more a memoir of religious experiences. The book remained in manuscript and was not published until 1936. Possibly the first publicly available autobiography written in English was Captan John Smith's autobiography published in 1630