as in biography
an account of a person's life written by the person it is about
I read her autobiography last year and it was surprisingly honest retelling of her rise to fame.
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Recent Examples of autobiography
Knopf published his autobiography.
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JSTOR Daily, 16 Oct. 2025
The Hard Way stands as a 15-track record best understood as Whitcomb’s autobiography.
—Josh Crutchmer, Rolling Stone, 11 Oct. 2025
In her autobiography, Mabel Dodge laid the blame for her schism with Stein firmly on one person.
—Via Scribner, Literary Hub, 7 Oct. 2025
And what seems like fable is in fact autobiography, now being told in a multi-art performance by South Florida dancer-choreographer-director Pioneer Winter alongside special members of his collective.
—Guillermo Perez, Miami Herald, 7 Oct. 2025
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JSTOR Daily, 16 Oct. 2025
The Hard Way stands as a 15-track record best understood as Whitcomb’s autobiography.
—Josh Crutchmer, Rolling Stone, 11 Oct. 2025
In her autobiography, Mabel Dodge laid the blame for her schism with Stein firmly on one person.
—Via Scribner, Literary Hub, 7 Oct. 2025
And what seems like fable is in fact autobiography, now being told in a multi-art performance by South Florida dancer-choreographer-director Pioneer Winter alongside special members of his collective.
—Guillermo Perez, Miami Herald, 7 Oct. 2025
See All Example Sentences for autobiography
Recent Examples of Synonyms for autobiography
biography
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The first biography of James Schuyler suggests that his tendency to withdraw was both a harbinger of his disabling mood disorder and the wellspring of his shimmering poetry.—
Langdon Hammer,
The New York Review of Books,
30 Oct. 2025
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Born in Ogden, Utah, in 1940, Stallings served a mission to New Zealand for The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints in the early 1960s, according to his House of Representatives biography.—
Sarah Cutler,
Idaho Statesman,
28 Oct. 2025
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