autobiography

[aw-tuh-bahy-og-ruh-fee, -bee-, aw-toh-]

noun

plural

autobiographies 

1. a history of a person's life written or told by that person.

autobiography

/ ˌɔːtəʊbaɪˈɒɡrəfɪ, ˌɔːtəbaɪ- /

noun

1. an account of a person's life written or otherwise recorded by that person

autobiography

1. A literary work about the writer's own life. The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin and Isak Dinesen's Out of Africa are autobiographical.

Other Word Forms

• autobiographer noun

Word History and Origins

Origin of autobiography¹

First recorded in 1790–1800; auto- ¹ + biography

Example Sentences

Often called the consummate “self-made man,” Franklin wrote his autobiography in four parts over 19 years.

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He alienated many in his own profession, calling many fellow academics "dinosaurs", "deadbeats", "fossils" and "has-beens" in his autobiography, Avoid Boring People.

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The book’s collagist arrangement of autobiography and artist sketches testifies to the Modernist influences that Americans were adapting for their own material.

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He draws on the photographer’s diaries and autobiography to portray his subject as a gentle-souled adventurer, driven into a peripatetic life by wanderlust and financial necessity.

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Allen told Perfect Magazine some of her songs had been written "in character", explaining that the lyrics "could be considered autofiction", a genre combining autobiography and fiction.

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• memoir