Editing James Garner (section)

===Memoir===
[[File:James Garner and daughter Kim 1958.JPG|left|thumb|upright|With stepdaughter Kim in 1958]]
On November 1, 2011, [[Simon & Schuster]] published Garner's autobiography ''The Garner Files: A Memoir''. In addition to recounting his career, the memoir, co-written with nonfiction writer Jon Winokur, detailed the childhood abuses Garner suffered at the hands of his stepmother. It also offered frank, unflattering assessments of some of Garner's co-stars such as [[Steve McQueen]] and [[Charles Bronson]]. In addition to recalling the genesis of most of Garner's hit films and television shows, the book also featured a section where the star provided individual critiques for every one of his acting projects accompanied by a star rating for each. Garner's three-time co-star [[Julie Andrews]] wrote the book's foreword. [[Lauren Bacall]], [[Diahann Carroll]], [[Doris Day]], [[Tom Selleck]], [[Stephen J. Cannell]], and many other Garner associates, friends, and relatives provided their memories of the star in the book's coda.<ref name="MJref">{{cite web|url=http://www.express.co.uk/expressyourself/287535/James-Garner-Why-Steve-McQueen-was-like-my-little-brother|title=James Garner: Why Steve McQueen was like my little brother|date=December 3, 2011|access-date=July 20, 2014}}</ref>

The "most explosive revelation" in his autobiography was that Garner smoked marijuana for much of his adult life. "I started smoking it in my late teens," Garner wrote.

{{blockquote|I drank to get drunk but ultimately didn't like the effect. Not so with grass. It had the opposite effect from alcohol: it made me more tolerant and forgiving. I did a little bit of cocaine in the Eighties, courtesy of John Belushi, but fortunately I didn't like it. But I smoked marijuana for 50 years and I don't know where I'd be without it. It opened my mind and now it eases my arthritis. After decades of research I've concluded that marijuana should be legal and alcohol illegal.<ref name="MJref"/>}}