autobiographer
noun
a person who writes an autobiography.
autobiographers
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pluralof autobiographer.plural
The grammatical form denoting more than one person, place, thing, or idea.
Example Sentences
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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
No criminals, even allowing them to be hypocrites, ever disclose themselves in the open-hearted manner of these autobiographers.
From Library of the World's Best Literature, Ancient and Modern — Volume 11 by Hamilton Wright Mabie
