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
Honor ClerkWhatever is passed over in silence by an autobiographer should surely be one of the biographer's main areas of concern.—Nicholas Jenkins
Nicholas JenkinsExamples of autobiographer in a Sentence
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The long poems pose an additional problem for a biographer: in these retrospective works, written in the seventies and eighties, Schuyler became a late-breaking autobiographer.
—Dan Chiasson, New Yorker, 4 Aug. 2025
Most Black autobiographers never even planned to publish (or thought about publishing) their books commercially.
—Tim Brinkhof, JSTOR Daily, 11 Dec. 2024
Still, for Beyoncé the filmmaker and autobiographer, one narrative-building feat seems to remain out of reach.
—Carrie Battan, The New Yorker, 5 Dec. 2023
John Berger thought the autobiographer was freer than a novelist.
—Sallie Tisdale, Harper's Magazine, 16 Oct. 2023
Special counsel Jack Smith's team has spoken to the meeting's attendees, which included autobiographers for Meadows and at least two aides to Trump, sources tell ABC News.
—Katherine Faulders, ABC News, 26 June 2023
The autobiographer has trumped the biographer.
—BostonGlobe.com, 15 Oct. 2021
The author of that book, Memoirs 1925-1950, was Kennan himself, as self-critical and personally reflective an autobiographer as his century had seen.
—Nicholas Thompson, Foreign Affairs, 6 Dec. 2011
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Dan Chiasson, New Yorker, 4 Aug. 2025
Most Black autobiographers never even planned to publish (or thought about publishing) their books commercially.
—Tim Brinkhof, JSTOR Daily, 11 Dec. 2024
Still, for Beyoncé the filmmaker and autobiographer, one narrative-building feat seems to remain out of reach.
—Carrie Battan, The New Yorker, 5 Dec. 2023
John Berger thought the autobiographer was freer than a novelist.
—Sallie Tisdale, Harper's Magazine, 16 Oct. 2023
Special counsel Jack Smith's team has spoken to the meeting's attendees, which included autobiographers for Meadows and at least two aides to Trump, sources tell ABC News.
—Katherine Faulders, ABC News, 26 June 2023
The autobiographer has trumped the biographer.
—BostonGlobe.com, 15 Oct. 2021
The author of that book, Memoirs 1925-1950, was Kennan himself, as self-critical and personally reflective an autobiographer as his century had seen.
—Nicholas Thompson, Foreign Affairs, 6 Dec. 2011
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“Autobiographer.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/autobiographer. Accessed 31 Oct. 2025.
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