autobiography
[aw-tuh-bahy-og-ruh-fee, -bee-, aw-toh-]
- a history of a person's life written or told by that person.
Origin of autobiography
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Examples from the Web for autobiography
Contemporary Examples
Glow: The Autobiography of Rick JamesRick James David Ritz (Atria Books) Where to begin?
Hulanicki was the subject of a 2009 documentary, Beyond Biba, based on her 2007 autobiography From A to Biba.
“Nighttime was the worst,” Bennett wrote in his autobiography.
Tony Bennett’s Nazi Hunting Past Is Just One Reason He’s the Greatest Living AmericanAsawin Suebsaeng
September 25, 2014
Then I picked up a book that shredded my facile preconceptions—Hard Stuff: The Autobiography of Mayor Coleman Young.
In his autobiography 'Still Me,' Reeves recounted how Williams helped save his life.
Robin Williams and Christopher Reeve's Epic Friendship and the Greatest Williams Story Ever ToldMarlow Stern
August 12, 2014
Historical Examples
His autobiography was translated into English and published in London in 1846.
The Works of Whittier, Volume IV (of VII)John Greenleaf Whittier
What says our author about "biography, autobiography, and history?"
A Dish Of OrtsGeorge MacDonald
He sat down to write his new book which was, in a way, an autobiography.
The PrisonerAlice Brown
The whole episode takes about three pages of his autobiography.
Notes on My BooksJoseph Conrad
To take them as an attempt at autobiography would be a mistake.
My ReminiscencesRabindranath Tagore
autobiography
- an account of a person's life written or otherwise recorded by that person
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Word Origin and History for autobiography
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autobiography
A literary work about the writer's own life. The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin and Isak Dinesen's Out of Africa are autobiographical.
The New Dictionary of Cultural Literacy, Third Edition
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