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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.
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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
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
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Romano’s sturdy book may not stint on examples of Mary’s bad behavior—including a ferociously jealous verbal assault, near the end of the war, on the wife of a prominent Union general—but the biographer keeps tilting against those who slighted Mary in even the most superficial ways.—
Thomas Mallon,
New Yorker,
18 May 2026
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While Goodman’s paradoxes and fantasies posed challenges to me as her biographer, with the advent of AI slop and ChatGPT, our courtship with illusion (and possibly delusion) is here to stay.—
Literary Hub,
Literary Hub,
13 May 2026
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“Autobiographer.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/autobiographer. Accessed 10 Jun. 2026.
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