In 1969, Fadden published a memoir titled "They Called Me Artie". Reviewing the book for "The Canberra Times", Don Aitkin observed that Fadden had "the reputation of a political buffoon, a man of earthy wit and hail-fellow-well-metness who survived in politics because he knew more and better stories than the next man [...] his autobiography does little to destroy that picture". Shortly before his death in 1973 he also published a nine-page account of his prime ministership in "Australian Outlook", titled "Forty days and forty nights".