Talks & Entertainment

*This program does not include a book signing. All books will be pre-signed by Neil Patrick Harris.

Tired of memoirs that only tell you what really happened?

Sick of deeply personal accounts written in the first person? Seeking an exciting, interactive read that puts the “u” back in “aUtobiography”? Then look no further than Neil Patrick Harris: Choose Your Own Autobiography, where you, the reader, live his life.

You will be born in New Mexico. You will get your big break at an acting camp. You will get into a bizarre confrontation outside a nightclub with actor Scott Caan. Even better, at each critical juncture of your life you will choose how to proceed. You will decide whether to spend years struggling with your sexuality. You will decide what kind of caviar you want to eat on board Elton John’s yacht.

Choose correctly and you’ll find fame, fortune, and true love. Choose incorrectly and you’ll find misery, heartbreak, and a hideous death by piranhas. All this, plus magic tricks, cocktail recipes, embarrassing pictures from your time as a child actor, and even a closing song.

Harris is a Tony and Emmy award-winning stage and screen performer, famous for his roles as Barney Stinson in How I Met Your Mother and as the iconic and beloved Doogie Howser, M.D. In conversation with Madhulika Sikka, the Executive Editor for NPR News.