Thesaurus results for AUTOBIOGRAPHY

autobiography

noun

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 So closely are they related that jazz great Billie Holiday titled her 1956 autobiography Lady Sings the Blues. —

René Ostberg, Encyclopedia Britannica, 15 May 2026 In her autobiography, Shocking Life (1954), Schiaparelli details her first piece of performance art. —

Literary Hub, 11 May 2026 The autobiography of Koki, the parrot of Marshal Tito, who led Yugoslavia for 35 years. —

Matthew Carey, Deadline, 6 May 2026 Clark’s wise remedy is to strip her fiction of most of those facts, reducing the local references so that the narrative shifts away from singular autobiography toward singular emblem. —

James Wood, New Yorker, 4 May 2026 See All Example Sentences for autobiography

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biography

Noun

Writer, reader, and protagonists become involved in a common pursuit of the kind celebrated by Richard Holmes in his writing about biography.

— Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 1 June 2026
And since Platner is a novice candidate, his biography is his main selling point.

— Burgess Everett, semafor.com, 1 June 2026