autobiography

noun

Definition of autobiographynext
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 In his work preceding Good Time Charlie, Haddad has dealt in similar forms of autobiography, often as a solo performer. — Jackson McHenry, Vulture, 10 Oct. 2026 Evans recorded the audiobook version of his 1994 autobiography The Kid Stays in the Picture. — Brian Raftery, Vanity Fair, 6 Oct. 2026 But it‘s what is in the autobiography that begins to make Lowen question who Verity really is. — Lexy Perez, HollywoodReporter, 5 Oct. 2026 Forced to deliver a manuscript, Maria writes an autobiography clocking in at a shade over 200 pages. — Marc Weingarten, Los Angeles Times, 3 Oct. 2026 See All Example Sentences for autobiography
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  • One of the many clever strokes in Andrew O’Hagan’s 2024 novel Caledonian Road was casting his floundering, public intellectual hero as the author of a best-selling biography of Johannes Vermeer.
    — Susan Tallman, The New York Review of Books, 17 Oct. 2026
  • The Boundless Biddy Mason is simultaneously the biography of an individual, of a community, and of a city in its formative years.
    — Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 15 Oct. 2026
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“Autobiography.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/autobiography. Accessed 20 Oct. 2026.

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