autobiographer

noun

au·to·bi·og·ra·pher ˌȯ-tə-bī-ˈä-grə-fər

-bē-

plural autobiographers

: a person who writes their own biography

'I have always been an autobiographer and a chronicler of my life and family,' she [Celia Paul] writes at the start of this memoir …

Honor Clerk

Whatever is passed over in silence by an autobiographer should surely be one of the biographer's main areas of concern.

Nicholas Jenkins

Word History

Etymology

autobiograph(y) + -er entry 2

First Known Use

1807, in the meaning defined above

Time Traveler

The first known use of autobiographer was in 1807

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Style

“Autobiographer.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/autobiographer. Accessed 17 Aug. 2022.

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