Booking through Biographies/Autobiographies

Which do you prefer? Biographies written about someone? Or Autobiographies written by the actual person (and/or ghost-writer)?

Frankly I prefer autobiographies. A person can convey everything about himself if he writes it and speaks of his perspectives, feelings and thoughts. Only he can tell us about his compulsions and his innermost emotions. This appeals to the reader as it conveys everything about that person. No biography can compare with that. No one can understand another person. Or what drives him. A writer of any biography depends on old letters, documents and other people's perspectives. He draws his conclusions from third party and and somehow it does not appeal as the way an autobiography does.

Yes, one can read biographies of people who are long gone but I prefer autobiographies of people of my own century. Also the fact that an ordinary person's memoir fascinates me more than the memoir of any well-known person.