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.
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In her autobiography, to be published in early 2027, she says she was a "rebellious little girl", determined to show that people did not need "the right name" to succeed.
From Barron's ● Oct. 29, 2026
Legendary TV producer Chuck Lorre is opening up about his life like never before with the release of his autobiography, “Sitcom: A Memoir,” pulling back the curtain to reveal details of his personal life.
From MarketWatch ● Oct. 27, 2026
Together they’ve written a book called “Overcoming Infidelity,” which mixes self-help and autobiography to guide readers on navigating the aftermath of cheating and betrayal.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 19, 2026
Still, she looms large in Lowen’s imagination, especially when she finds a secret autobiography in which Verity reveals her darkest secrets.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 1, 2026
While on the abolition speaking circuit, Douglass’s fame grew, and in 1845, he published his first of three works of autobiography, Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, an American Slave.
From "In the Shadow of Liberty" by Kenneth C. Davis
So I love to look for vegan books, nutrition books, rock biographies and autobiographies.
From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 24, 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
Scotusblog, a website devoted to covering the Supreme Court, in 2012 posted a list of 353 books written or edited by justices since 1776, from autobiographies and poetry to legal theory and ruminations on war.
From New York Times ● Jul. 27, 2023
In their autobiographies, they recounted great races in intimate detail, but falls and injuries were glossed over with the most perfunctory language.
From "Seabiscuit: An American Legend" by Laura Hillenbrand
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