autobiographer
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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
It is the sort of record that prompted Karl Ove Knausgaard, the country’s celebrated novelist and autobiographer, to describe the team’s history as a series of games “in rainy Eastern Europe that they lost.”
From New York Times ● Nov. 17, 2021
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
I usually place my penalties," she wrote in her autobiographer, Footballer, "but this time, due to where I was at with the ankle, I was angry and decided to go for power.
From The Guardian ● Mar. 29, 2013
The poor, miserable autobiographer naturally desires to make his personality as interesting to the reader as it appears to himself.
From Far Away and Long Ago by Hudson, W. H. (William Henry)
The novelist William Burroughs once complained about autobiographers who conceal their lives in print, quipping that the Paul Bowles memoir “Without Stopping” would have been better titled “Without Telling.”
From New York Times ● Nov. 5, 2018
This is always the case with biographies of great autobiographers.
From The New Yorker ● Oct. 10, 2016
He is the least boastful, the least narcissistic of autobiographers.
From The Guardian ● Jun. 10, 2016
Early autobiographers mixed the emergence of sin and reborn faith with the rise of worldly knowledge.
From Salon ● Nov. 26, 2015
We must not expect from these seventeenth-century autobiographers the sort of details which we demand from memoir-writers to-day.
From Three French Moralists and The Gallantry of France by Gosse, Edmund
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