In 1997 Townshend signed a offer with Little, Brown and Company publishing to compose his autobiography, reportedly titled Pete Townshend: Who He? Notable assignments incorporated enhancing Animals frontman Eric Burdon's autobiography, Charles Shaar Murray's award-winning Crosstown Traffic: Jimi Hendrix and Post-War Pop, Brian Eno and Russell Mills's More Dark Than Shark, and functioning with Prince Charles on a volume of his gathered speeches.