A maverick from birth, Weegee came from the blackest poverty of the streets of New York. The world he knew, and partly portrayed in his famous Naked City, never gave him respite, nor did he ask for it. In this autobiography, illustrated by a gallery of his pictures, he unrolls his stories to the bold rhythm of his slang ("I call it English"), giving the naked truth, as he saw it, of famous and infamous men, from the slums to the cream of New York, from nudist camps to Piccadilly, from the Bowery to Hollywood, Munich and Paris. Full of acid jokes, he tells his most exciting days in "Weegeeland". "I took the most famous pictures of a violent era, the pictures all the big papers could not get and had to buy from me. And taking them I also photographed the soul of the city I knew and loved."