autobiography
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autobiographies
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Origin of autobiography
Explanation
You are writing an autobiography when you write your own life story. A writer who writes an autobiography is like a painter who paints a self-portrait. If you intend to write your autobiography one day, it might be a good idea to start recording notes about your life in a diary. The author Gertrude Stein was being clever when she poked fun at the very idea of autobiography when she wrote her own memoirs but titled them The Autobiography of Alice B. Toklas, instead of The Autobiography of Gertrude Stein.
Vocabulary lists containing autobiography
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I would photograph each object and write down the story behind it, like a mini autobiography: why I kept it, what it says about who I was at the time.
From MarketWatch ● Sep. 29, 2026
Other highlights include the manual typewriter she used to write her correspondence and autobiography, jewellery, and classical guitars.
From BBC ● Sep. 20, 2026
Lagarde’s own future is likely to be discussed due to the news that her autobiography, to be titled “Lady First,” is set to be published in January.
From MarketWatch ● Sep. 9, 2026
In 1840, Byfield published his first book-length autobiography, A Narrative of a Light Company Soldier's Service.
From Science Daily ● Sep. 7, 2026
This autobiography, moreover, is a book about language.
From "Hunger of Memory" by Richard Rodriguez
She watched as much soccer as she could and read player autobiographies.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 12, 2026
The book’s leading actors have been subjects of biographies and autobiographies, and most events have been exhaustively covered in scholarly and popular histories and articles as well as media reports.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Dec. 16, 2025
Chapter 9 is about Frederick Douglass and identity-aware liberalism, as expressed through his autobiographies.
From Salon ● Nov. 10, 2024
Eruption, which had original working titles of The Black Zone and Vulcan, is Patterson's first attempt at posthumous publishing - but he is familiar with high-profile collaborations, having written Bill Clinton and Dolly Parton's autobiographies.
From BBC ● Jun. 3, 2024
It is not enough to say that my mother and father do not want to write their autobiographies.
From "Hunger of Memory" by Richard Rodriguez
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