A CANDID PERSONAL MEMOIR detailing the long career and life experience of the brilliantly accomplished Gregory would certainly be welcome, and this book marvelously fills the bill … Gregory is a masterly storyteller and chronicler. Eschewing the usual stale showbiz anecdotes, his perfectly timed narratives are spiced with wit, self-deprecating humor and shrewd analytical insight.
— PHILLIP LOPATE, THE NEW YORK TIMES BOOK REVIEW

Treating the material [of his life] as he might a work of fiction gave Gregory, who vowed never to write a memoir, the distance to confront his past. Impressionistic in its style, [This is Not My Memoir] traces the outline of Gregory’s life with swift, graceful brushstrokes. Delivered in the confiding tone of a gifted dinner party raconteur, it reads like an artfully transcribed oral history.
— CHARLES MCNULTY, LA TIMES

Reading This is Not My Memoir is like playing Wallace Shawn’s part in My Dinner With André. You are the beguiled, occasionally alarmed audience for boundary-smashing director André Gregory’s free-form monologue about his quest for meaning in life and art … Gregory powerfully conveys his joy in the theater … At 86, Gregory remains a seeker. He took up painting in his 70s and started rehearsing ‘Hedda Gabler’ at 82—given his working pace, he remarks, it ‘could be ready for an audience in time for my 100th birthday.’ The zest for living and working he displays throughout this vibrant memoir is a good indication that he’ll be around to give the opening night speech.
— WENDY SMITH, THE WASHINGTON POST

An engaging, thoughtful, and provocative book by a master storyteller. Readers interested in theater and movies will be spellbound. But even those who are not theater buffs will find [Gregory's] desire for perfection to be admirable and a topic for personal reflection. If nothing else, one is left with the observation that having dinner with André would indeed be a fascinating and rewarding privilege.
— TERRY W. HARTLE, CHRISTIAN SCIENCE MONITOR

[André Gregory's] body of work … stands out as one of the most unique, and precisely assembled, in the recent history of theater and film … Gregory’s memoir, and his life, could be described as the story of the search beyond art turned into art itself.
— BOOKFORUM

This is Not My Memoir is an explanation of the forces that drove Gregory to create, an examination of what his pursuit of such unorthodox, anti-commercial work cost him and what it taught him. It’s an assessment of his life’s work, not as product but as process. And this life’s work has consisted of a search for meaning, for the why, not the what or who or how … To read the book is to search with him, to learn with him how to be awake in the world whether it’s real or not.
— THE FORWARD

As anyone who has seen the 1981 film classic My Dinner with André knows, avant-garde theater director and actor André Gregory is a wonderful raconteur. His multi-faceted life, full of dramatic ups and downs (and celebrities!), is rich material for memoir.
— NPR

In this perceptive, nonlinear memoir… [André Gregory] offers anecdotal reflections on his artistic life… Film lovers and theatergoers will delight in Gregory’s reminiscences.
— PUBLISHERS WEEKLY (starred review)

"My Emails About André": Tablet's Rachel Shteir and Matthew Fishbane have a conversation about This is Not My Memoir
— TABLET MAGAZINE

As a director, actor, writer, teacher, and painter, Gregory has a lot to say, and he says it with style and no little substance. Readers fascinated by theater, film, and the creative process will want to pull up a chair, pour a glass of wine, and feast on the thoughts of one of the theater’s great artists.
— BOOKLIST

[André Gregory] recounts his early life as a spectacular swirl of tragedy and privilege, one that sets the stage for his later, almost comical searches for theatrical inspiration across countless borders of country, class, and culture… But this book is more than an account of Gregory’s plays, roles, or foibles. Rather, it’s an intimate conversation between Gregory and readers (made possible by theater historian London) that asks us to listen to the ideas behind the words and emerge more thoughtful for it… This rare, beautiful book toes the line between life and work; a must for [My Dinner with Andre] fans and theater lovers.
— LIBRARY JOURNAL

[André Gregory is] one of the pioneers of American avant-garde theater. Few artists’ lives have been as colorful… [This is Not My Memoir is] a witty trip through a unique life in the theater.”
— KIRKUS REVIEWS

"The Creative Process is Very Mysterious" – American Theatre Editor-in-Chief Rob Weinert-Kendt interviews André Gregory about This is Not My Memoir

Playbill names This is Not My Memoir one of the "16 Theatre Reads to Check Out in Fall 2020"

"[This is Not My Memoir] alights briefly on dozens of wildly picaresque episodes … Highly entertaining."
— BY MICHAEL BLOOM, AMERICAN THEATRE

André Gregory: Actor, Director, Artist – "He’s been in the theater world for decades, but painting, he says, has taught him a new way of seeing."
— KATE GUADAGNINO, THE NEW YORK TIMES STYLE MAGAZINE

André Gregory: Portrait of an Artist at 86
— REBECCA ALVIN, PROVINCETOWN MAGAZINE

André Gregory is Sara Fishko's guest on WNYC's Fishko Files.

André Gregory: Portrait of an Artist at 86
— ANDRÉ BISHOP, AIR MAIL

Leonard Lopate interviews André Gregory
— LEONARD LOPATE AT LARGE, WBAI

André Gregory is a guest on WAMC-FM's The Roundtable
— WAMC

Lois Reitzes interviews André Gregory for City Lights
— WABE-FM

Our Lunchtime With André with Colin McEnroe
— WNPR