autobiographer
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Emanuel Derman is the remarkable author and subject: a Bell Labs-caliber physicist turned Wall Street quant turned professor of financial engineering turned autobiographer.
From The Wall Street Journal • Dec. 12, 2025
It is the sort of record that prompted Karl Ove Knausgaard, the country’s celebrated novelist and autobiographer, to describe the team’s history as a series of games “in rainy Eastern Europe that they lost.”
From New York Times • Nov. 17, 2021
Over the weekend, the New Yorker ran a 1,000-word paragraph, penned by autobiographer Karl Ove Knausgaard, impugning the honor of dogs.
From Slate • Aug. 24, 2018
Singh, whose verified Twitter profile calls him a saint, philanthropist, sportsman, actor, singer, movie director, writer, lyricists, and autobiographer, has been photographed with senior BJP leaders including Haryana chief minister Manohar Lal Khattar.
From Reuters • Aug. 27, 2017
The autobiographer “complied with the order contained in her dying behest.”
From French Classics by Wilkinson, William Cleaver
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