autobiography
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In his 2012 autobiography "An American Son," the man oft-memed as the "viceroy" of Cuba, recounts boasting to his exiled Cuban grandfather that he would one day overthrow Fidel Castro and free Cuba.
From Barron's ● Jul. 29, 2026
Famous Boston fund manager Jeremy Grantham recalled in his autobiography one of his first forays into stock picking as a young man.
From MarketWatch ● Jul. 15, 2026
A year later, what he anticipated as a collection of stories became an autobiography titled Did I Ever Tell you This?
From BBC ● Jul. 13, 2026
Moviegoers should be careful not to read too much autobiography into an actor’s creative choices, but Jolie makes such speculation tantalizing, adding additional layers of drama to her films.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 26, 2026
The Discourse is a strange work because it is both autobiography and philosophy; Descartes teaches us how to think by telling us the steps he went through in learning how to think.
From "The Invention of Science" by David Wootton
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So I love to look for vegan books, nutrition books, rock biographies and autobiographies.
From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 24, 2026
The book’s leading actors have been subjects of biographies and autobiographies, and most events have been exhaustively covered in scholarly and popular histories and articles as well as media reports.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Dec. 16, 2025
"In fact she wrote two autobiographies herself so the story is out there but although she was known completely throughout the Commonwealth she is hardly known today which is sad."
From BBC ● Nov. 10, 2024
Chapter 9 is about Frederick Douglass and identity-aware liberalism, as expressed through his autobiographies.
From Salon ● Nov. 10, 2024
In their autobiographies, they recounted great races in intimate detail, but falls and injuries were glossed over with the most perfunctory language.
From "Seabiscuit: An American Legend" by Laura Hillenbrand
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