Songs My Mother Taught Me (Marlon Brando book) Songs My Mother Taught Me (Marlon Brando book) Songs My Mother Taught Me an autobiography by Marlon Brando with Robert Lindsey as co-author, published in 1994. The book deals with Brando's childhood, his memories of being a struggling actor and of his various relationships with his family and with other actors, producers, and directors. He also talks candidly about his sex life. The book has been translated into several languages, including a Persian version translated by Niki Karimi in 1999. Notably, little to no mention is made of his wives or children. It was said that he made this a
Songs My Mother Never Taught Me assassin, as their two lives become intrinsically bound, while, Selçuk Altun, a former family friend, provides Arda with clues to track down his father's killer. Altun, himself, paid for the English translation of the novel in 2007 in what he describes as, “an expensive gamble,” intended to bring his books to an international audience. According to the author, this translation, by Ruth Christie and Selçuk Berilgen was, “not supported by a special promotion program when it was first published in the UK in the summer of 2008,” but sold 3,000 copies nonetheless. However while the English publisher opted to follow