Did you spend eight years in a gulag? Some readers might find that interesting. If it's just a metaphor then I might accept it in a blog post title, but I wouldn't be impressed in a non-fiction novella title.
Lots of people write generic non-fiction/memoir stuff, but I can't say that I know anyone that reads them. It seems to me that the interest vector goes the other way: a reader likes the fiction/writing enough to be curious about the author.
Even then, there can be limits: I'm a Stephen King fan of sorts (his earlier stuff at least) but there's a collection of short stories that includes two non-fiction pieces (baseball), and my comment in my little private reading log was: " I guess he really is famous enough to sell his shopping list"
On the other hand, I did like his "On Writing" book - both the biographical parts and the sharing of his experience/expertise.