''The Autobiography of My Body'' is a novel by the American writer David Guy set in 1980s Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. It tells the story of the sexual liberation of Charles Bradford, who after a bad marriage has returned to his hometown to be near his ailing father. There he meets Andrea, a feminist and political activist, and they start a torrid affair that forces him to reexamine his life.

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The New York Times called it "an intimate portrait of a man torn between appetite and intellect, a sort of ''Portnoy's Complaint'' for gentiles" and a "painstaking explication of habit and longing" in an ambiguous review.Sarah Ferguson, "The Autobiography of My Body" (Review), NY Times March 17, 1991, https://www.nytimes.com/1991/03/17/books/in-short-fiction-794891.html

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