[1] The title alludes to Buffett's 1975 song "A Pirate Looks at Forty".

Buffett chronicles important happenings up to his fiftieth (the beginnings of his career, his plane crash, etc.)

and his birthday celebrations - plane hopping in South America and the Caribbean.

1 on both the fiction and non-fiction lists, along with Ernest Hemingway, Dr. Seuss, John Steinbeck, William Styron and Irving Wallace.

[3] This article about a biographical or autobiographical book on musicians is a stub.