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 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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biographer
Noun
  • Although Fawnie doesn’t have any notable namesakes, the late biographer Fawn Brodie was one of the first female professors at UCLA, and artist Fawn Krieger is a recent recipient of the Louis Comfort Tiffany Foundation grant.
    Sarah Scott, Parents, 14 Oct. 2025
  • Royal biographer Ingrid Seward also criticized Harry for speaking ill of Kate for financial gain.
    Jason Pham, StyleCaster, 12 Oct. 2025

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