autobiography
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The pope gave Dylan a rosary and the singer gifted the leader of the world's 1.4 billion Catholics his autobiography, the report said.
From Barron's ● Nov. 4, 2026
Together they’ve written a book called “Overcoming Infidelity,” which mixes self-help and autobiography to guide readers on navigating the aftermath of cheating and betrayal.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 19, 2026
Still, she looms large in Lowen’s imagination, especially when she finds a secret autobiography in which Verity reveals her darkest secrets.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 1, 2026
I would photograph each object and write down the story behind it, like a mini autobiography: why I kept it, what it says about who I was at the time.
From MarketWatch ● Sep. 29, 2026
She left behind an autobiography, which Michel Foucault discovered in the archives of the French Department of Public Hygiene.
From "Middlesex: A Novel" by Jeffrey Eugenides
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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
Considering Angelou’s autobiographies — particularly, “Gather Together in My Name” — you can see why Myron Goble’s script about the power of family appealed to her.
From New York Times ● Dec. 26, 2023
It is not enough to say that my mother and father do not want to write their autobiographies.
From "Hunger of Memory" by Richard Rodriguez
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Words to Live By: Bio
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To Thine Own Self Be True: Auto
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