autobiographer

American  

[aw-tuh-bahy-ahg-ruh-fer] / ˌɔ təˌbaɪˈɑg rə fər /

noun

plural

autobiographers

1. a person who writes an autobiography.

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Example Sentences

Roughly a decade before Stephen Sondheim died in November 2021, he added a surprising new occupation to his multi-hyphenate career: autobiographer.

From New York Times

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

Paul describes herself as an autobiographer rather than a portrait painter by which she means she paints mostly herself and those she loves – her four sisters, her late mother, her husband, her son.

From The Guardian

He was a reflective autobiographer like Barack Obama; in Blight’s words, he “made memory into art, brilliantly and mischievously employing its authority, its elusiveness, its truths, and its charms.”

From Washington Post

The novelist William Burroughs once complained about autobiographers who conceal their lives in print, quipping that the Paul Bowles memoir “Without Stopping” would have been better titled “Without Telling.”

From New York Times