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
Her memoir Swimming Studies won the 2012 National Book Critics Circle Award for autobiography.
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Leanne Shapton, The New York Review of Books, 16 July 2025
Those are the words of Dana Brown, former Deputy Editor of Vanity Fair, from his 2022 autobiography, Dilettante.
—John Tamny, Forbes.com, 25 July 2025
Occom also was the first Native American to write his autobiography.
—Frank Vaisvilas, jsonline.com, 15 July 2025
Sylvia was proved right when The Cradle was exposed as a hoax (more fiction than autobiography) and their American counterpart had to offer members a refund.
—Nicola Wilson
june 26, Literary Hub, 26 June 2025
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Leanne Shapton, The New York Review of Books, 16 July 2025
Those are the words of Dana Brown, former Deputy Editor of Vanity Fair, from his 2022 autobiography, Dilettante.
—John Tamny, Forbes.com, 25 July 2025
Occom also was the first Native American to write his autobiography.
—Frank Vaisvilas, jsonline.com, 15 July 2025
Sylvia was proved right when The Cradle was exposed as a hoax (more fiction than autobiography) and their American counterpart had to offer members a refund.
—Nicola Wilson
june 26, Literary Hub, 26 June 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for autobiography
biography
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Anyone who ever wants to write my biography will have his/her work cut out for her/him, since virtually no documentation or juvenilia exist.—
Literary Hub,
Literary Hub,
14 Aug. 2025
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But a new biography on Andrew and his ex-wife, Sarah Ferguson, titled Entitled: The Rise and Fall of the House of York, has not only brought his behavior back into the conversation, but revealed a lot of sordid details people didn’t know.—
Lizzie Lanuza,
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13 Aug. 2025
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