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
Roughly a decade before Stephen Sondheim died in November 2021, he added a surprising new occupation to his multi-hyphenate career: autobiographer.
From New York Times ● Dec. 19, 2022
Over the weekend, the New Yorker ran a 1,000-word paragraph, penned by autobiographer Karl Ove Knausgaard, impugning the honor of dogs.
From Slate ● Aug. 24, 2018
Singh, whose verified Twitter profile calls him a saint, philanthropist, sportsman, actor, singer, movie director, writer, lyricist and autobiographer, has been photographed with senior BJP leaders including the Haryana chief minister, Manohar Lal Khattar.
From The Guardian ● Aug. 27, 2017
The autobiographer “complied with the order contained in her dying behest.”
From French Classics by Wilkinson, William Cleaver
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
Early autobiographers mixed the emergence of sin and reborn faith with the rise of worldly knowledge.
From Salon ● Nov. 26, 2015
Of course there’s a chapter in The Art of Memoir about lying autobiographers like James Frey, bad actors who have tainted the form’s public image.
From Slate ● Sep. 23, 2015
The terrible passages in the last writings of this greatest of autobiographers, which she had hoped poetically colored, were then painfully, prosaically true.
From Dreamers of the Ghetto by Zangwill, Israel
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