How to Use autobiography in a Sentence

autobiography

noun

• I read her autobiography last year.
• In exchange, guests help for a few hours a day around the bookshop and write a one-page autobiography to add to the shop's collection of past guests.
  — Talia Avakian, Travel + Leisure, 25 May 2023
• Below are some of her thoughts on the faith, in her own words, pulled from her 2012 autobiography and from interviews over the years.
  — Los Angeles Times, 6 Dec. 2022
• That was the title of Kapp’s autobiography published in 2019 and co-authored by J.J. Kapp and two other friends.
  — Josh Dubow and Dave Campbell, BostonGlobe.com, 9 May 2023
• The autobiography will detail her life’s ups and downs — including her years in a cult.
  — Jp Mangalindan, Peoplemag, 9 Aug. 2023
• There is certainly a lack of shame in the living autobiographies.
  — Katy Waldman, The New Yorker, 18 June 2023
• Bob Odenkirk had written about it in his autobiography and talked about it on a show as the funniest sketch that never aired.
  — Jenelle Riley, Variety, 19 Dec. 2023
• Liz was very intrigued by this part of my autobiography where my mother goes to college with me.
  — Madison Feller, ELLE, 8 Apr. 2023
• Why did Malcolm write an autobiography when the form vexed and repelled her?
  — Katie Roiphe, The Atlantic, 15 Jan. 2023
• At Any Size, Ellis’s book, came out in 2010 after years of hard work, and balances autobiography and self-help.
  — José Criales-Unzueta, Vogue, 26 Jan. 2023
• Part two is an effort at autobiography by Andrew Bevel, the man on which Rask was based.
  — ELLE, 23 Dec. 2022
• In his autobiography, Rudolf maintained that Hedwig had no knowledge of the killings taking place at Auschwitz.
  — Meilan Solly, Smithsonian Magazine, 4 Jan. 2024
• Still, Stoppard doesn't want anyone to view the play as autobiography.
  — Maureen Lee Lenker, EW.com, 30 Sep. 2022
• What drove him through those fifty-three years is also the matter of his forthcoming autobiography, to be published by Knopf.
  — Graciela Mochkofsky, The New Yorker, 6 Oct. 2023
• Schott confirmed the offer in his autobiography and wrote that a deal with Wolff and Fisher was already in place by the time Jackson’s group contacted him.
  — Matt Kawahara, San Francisco Chronicle, 16 Apr. 2023
• Grohl wrote in his 2021 autobiography, the Storyteller: Tales of Life and Music.
  — Daniel Kreps, Rolling Stone, 28 Sep. 2022
• In his foreword to the 1970 edition of Ward’s autobiography, Vincent Harding pointed to a couple of the major gaps in Ward’s life story.
  — R.j.m. Blackett, Smithsonian Magazine, 24 Mar. 2023
• The idiosyncratic autobiography made Mr. Flower all too ready for his year of self-reflection to be over.
  — Louise Rafkin, New York Times, 12 May 2023
• Yet once, Sidney Poitier joined us to talk about his autobiography and was nothing less than a delight.
  — Patt Morrison, Los Angeles Times, 23 Apr. 2023
• Mixing touches of autobiography with folk tales and magical realism, the film tracks a young girl with an old soul.
  — Ben Croll, Variety, 11 Nov. 2022
• While signing copies of his autobiography, My Side, in London, Beckham showed off some texture in his hair, which was parted down the middle and tucked behind his ears.
  — Jessica Booth, Peoplemag, 13 Oct. 2023
• By the same token, though, the book does grapple with the formation and alteration of memory in a way that a straightforward autobiography might not.
  — Jacob Bacharach, The New Republic, 25 July 2023
• The books run, in total, to almost two thousand pages and come seven years after the sixth and final volume of Prose, which gathered the essays, reviews, and autobiography.
  — Nick Laird, The New York Review of Books, 16 Mar. 2023
• While Robertson’s autobiography doesn’t go into the specifics of their breakup, which has been a point of conjecture for decades, much of the book centers on the friendship that made the band’s bitter ending that much more heartbreaking.
  — Anna Tingley, Variety, 10 Aug. 2023
• But a man whose 2003 autobiography is titled One Win and Nine Losses cannot be accused of arrogance.
  — Time, 13 Nov. 2023
• Elton John may have played his last show, but fans of the legendary singer can still keep the memories alive thanks to a new Amazon offer that gets you John’s official autobiography, Me, on sale for just $6.99.
  — Tim Chan, Variety, 19 July 2023
• Wambaugh regularly speaks to groups about mental health and addiction and wrote an autobiography in 2012, The Last Call.
  — Jan Goldsmith, San Diego Union-Tribune, 13 Apr. 2023
• The gun purchase that led to the criminal charge happened in late 2018, at a time when, by his own telling in his autobiography, Hunter Biden was regularly abusing crack cocaine.
  — Perry Stein, Anchorage Daily News, 22 June 2023
• When an autobiography and a movie were released, Butcher Hollow became a part of the story of country music.
  — Kirby Adams, The Courier-Journal, 4 Oct. 2022
• Frederick Douglass, in his autobiography, described this view of Africans as a perversion of the Bible.
  — Kelefa Sanneh, The New Yorker, 27 Mar. 2023

Last Updated: 3 May 2024