It was published by Michael Joseph on 13 September 2010 in the United Kingdom and in the United States. Critics have called the book "candid, sincere, and charming, with insightful commentary if occasionally flat stories". The book is Fry's ninth, and his second volume of autobiography. Though without a strict chronology, it concentrates on a seven-year period of Fry's life, taking up the story after his release from prison, his time at the University of Cambridge and his career in comedy by the late 1980s.
The book is a continuation from the end of his 1997 publication of his first autobiography, Moab Is My Washpot: An Autobiography. Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability.The Fry Chronicles: An Autobiography is the 2010 autobiography of Stephen Fry. A delicious novel of rise and rise of a brilliant young man, which is filled with such vivid background, such unerring social observation, so many wonderful characters and such beguiling incident.' Guardian Spanning 1979-1987, this title charts the author's arrival at Cambridge up to his thirtieth birthday. A joyus allegro vivace of infectious comic bravura. we are splendidly better for it.' Observer 'Deliciously gossipy and very funny.' The Times 'Extraordinary, affectionate, engaging, cunningly planned and so crammed with incidental delights. A painfully honest attempt to tear the mask aside. What Fry does, essentially, is tell us who he really is. A grand reminiscence of college and theatre and comedyland in the 1980s, with tone-perfect showbiz anecdotes, and genuine readerly excitement.
Most readers will want to close the book and give it a hug.' Daily Telegraph 'Extremely enjoyable.' Sunday Times 'Fascinating. 'Stretching from Fry's success at Cambridge, where he met the comic love of his life, Hugh Laurie, to his first forays into television, this is one of the funniest, most generous, most daring pieces of confessional writing published in years. Spanning 1979-1987, The Fry Chronicles charts Stephen's arrival at Cambridge up to his thirtieth birthday.
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