autobiographer

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Recent Examples of autobiographer 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 This was true for autobiographers and for belletristic authors. Tim Brinkhof, JSTOR Daily, 11 Dec. 2024 Most Black autobiographers never even planned to publish (or thought about publishing) their books commercially. Tim Brinkhof, JSTOR Daily, 11 Dec. 2024 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 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
Recent Examples of Synonyms for autobiographer
biographer
Noun
  • Royal biographer and commentator Phil Dampier told the Sun that Markle was more interested in fame and fortune.
    Lizzie Lanuza, StyleCaster, 12 Aug. 2025
  • In 2017, Baldwin’s papers were acquired by the Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture, giving biographers access to an extensive archive.
    Louis Menand, New Yorker, 11 Aug. 2025

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