autobiographer
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autobiographers
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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
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 ● Oct. 27, 2019
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, or at any rate the writer of the type of autobiography on which I am engaged, need not apologise for being egotistical.
From The Adventure of Living : a Subjective Autobiography by John St. Loe Strachey
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 ● Nov. 5, 2018
This is always the case with biographies of great autobiographers.
From The New Yorker ● Oct. 10, 2016
He is the least boastful, the least narcissistic of autobiographers.
From The Guardian ● Jun. 10, 2016
Early autobiographers mixed the emergence of sin and reborn faith with the rise of worldly knowledge.
From Salon ● Nov. 26, 2015
The terrible passages in the last writings of this greatest of autobiographers, which she had hoped poetically colored, were then painfully, prosaically true.
From Dreamers of the Ghetto by Israel Zangwill
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