The Bizarre Life of Colonel Sanders
5 min readAug 22, 2022
When I was in college, I was part of a reading group that focused on strange and obscure books. Selections included On Atlantis by Edgar Cayce, Pimp: The Story of My Life by Iceberg Slim and Sammy Davis Jr’s autobiography Yes I Can. A memorable book was the 1974 autobiography of Colonel Harland Sanders of Kentucky Fried Chicken fame Life as I Have Known it Has Been Finger Lickin’ Good. (Why he didn’t shorten the title to “Life…
