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autobiography

[aw-tuh-bahy-og-ruh-fee, -bee-, aw-toh-] / ˌɔ tə baɪˈɒg rə fi, -bi-, ˌɔ toʊ- /


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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

This coincided with the lead-up to the publication of Arday’s autobiography.

From The Wall Street Journal Aug. 18, 2026

She remained involved in her daughter's life and added in her recent autobiography that "despite it all, the bond I have with Kaya is incredibly strong".

From BBC Aug. 17, 2026

“I was never looking to her thinking that this was autobiography or anything,” she says.

From Los Angeles Times Aug. 12, 2026

“I look at the itinerary, see that I am scheduled to stay at a certain hotel in a certain city, and sense that an exception has been made,” she wrote in her autobiography in 1956.

From "The Voice That Challenged a Nation: Marian Anderson and the Struggle for Equal Rights" by Russell Freedman

Morgan later discovered her fears were unfounded, with both Halliwell and Beckham mentioning her fondly in their autobiographies and wondering what had happened to her after she left the group.

From BBC Jul. 8, 2026

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

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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