autobiography
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She was also “at least temporarily,” in her words, “a full-fledged movie star,” she wrote in her autobiography “Dolly: My Life and Other Unfinished Business.”
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 26, 2026
In her autobiography, “Dolly: My Life and Other Unfinished Business,” Parton related how her parents were so poor they paid the doctor who delivered her with a sack of cornmeal.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 25, 2026
Harry's 2023 autobiography, "Spare", lifted the veil on his royal rifts, describing William as his "arch-nemesis" and alleging he physically attacked him in a blazing 2019 row about Meghan.
From Barron's ● Aug. 23, 2026
In her memoir, “A Guide to Open Water Lifesaving,” Ms. Eubanks recalls that in the years after the attack, she scoured the literature on PTSD, from clinical studies and self-help texts to autobiography and fiction.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 20, 2026
“I would be fooling myself to think that I was meant to be a fearless fighter,” she said in her autobiography.
From "The Voice That Challenged a Nation: Marian Anderson and the Struggle for Equal Rights" by Russell Freedman
Before his death, Birkenhead-born O'Grady was involved in its creation, which draws from his autobiographies to tell the story of how he developed the character of Lily.
From BBC ● Jun. 16, 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
“The projections mirror and amplify that as part of the visual vocabulary, whether that’s Douglass’ newspaper articles or autobiographies, or the text of the Emancipation Proclamation.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 16, 2025
Chapter 9 is about Frederick Douglass and identity-aware liberalism, as expressed through his autobiographies.
From Salon ● Nov. 10, 2024
Considered by many to be one of the best military autobiographies in history, Grant’s life story was a bestseller.
From "Lincoln's Last Days: The Shocking Assassination that Changed America Forever" by Bill O'Reilly
Vocabulary lists containing autobiography
Words to Live By: Bio
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To Thine Own Self Be True: Auto
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