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autobiographer

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

noun

  • autobiographers
    plural
  1. a person who writes an autobiography.


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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

Singh, whose verified Twitter profile calls him a saint, philanthropist, sportsman, actor, singer, movie director, writer, lyricist and autobiographer, has been photographed with senior BJP leaders including the Haryana chief minister, Manohar Lal Khattar.

From The Guardian ● Aug. 27, 2017

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

Early autobiographers mixed the emergence of sin and reborn faith with the rise of worldly knowledge.

From Salon ● Nov. 26, 2015

Of course there’s a chapter in The Art of Memoir about lying autobiographers like James Frey, bad actors who have tainted the form’s public image.

From Slate ● Sep. 23, 2015

For the earlier half of his career we have long had his own narrative; and Newman is a prince of autobiographers.

From Outspoken Essays by William Ralph Inge

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