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
Recent Examples of Synonyms for autobiographer
biographer
Noun
  • However, some reports have suggested that B intimated to the biographer that the singer's bandmates and his best friend, Mary Austin, had been aware of her existence.
    Chloe Mayer, MSNBC Newsweek, 1 Sep. 2025
  • The biographer who revived the reputation of our first Secretary of the Treasury—and incidentally launched a trillion amateur rap battles—set his sights on a beloved American satirist this year.
    Brittany Allen, Literary Hub, 27 Aug. 2025

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