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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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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

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 • Dec. 19, 2022

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

That combat occurred at the Franklin theatre, September 30, 1837—a useful fact that the autobiographer cares not to mention.

From Shadows of the Stage by Winter, William