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

In her autobiography, Lanchester wrote that she did not like the location of her husband's burial plot in Forest Lawn Hollywood Hills cemetery – Laughton died in 1962.

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In his autobiography, “Easily Slip Into Another World,” written with scholar Brent Hayes Edwards, he described a revelation, following a long search for “another way to organize sound.”

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It was only when writing his autobiography, The Life of a Crime Scene Cleaner, did Ben open his emotions to the sights he had witnessed.

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His 1845 autobiography, a blistering tale of bondage in Maryland and a daring flight to freedom, remains one of history’s fiercest attacks on slavery.

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The musician has been careful to clarify that some of the songs are written "in character", saying that the lyrics "could be considered autofiction" - a genre that combines autobiography and fiction.

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Related Words

• biography 
• confession 
• diary 
• journal 
• letter 
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• memoir