autobiography
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Wain reminded readers of his autobiography that in Tolkien’s time the Oxford English syllabus “was weighted in favor of the Middle Ages.”
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 30, 2026
In her autobiography, to be published in early 2027, she says she was a "rebellious little girl", determined to show that people did not need "the right name" to succeed.
From Barron's ● Oct. 29, 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
All his major published works on political philosophy, including his Defence of the Constitution of the United States of America and Discourses on Davila, along with his unpublished autobiography, lacked coherent form.
From "Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation" by Joseph J. Ellis
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Copeland said she also watched films, read books and autobiographies and listened to podcasts to make sure she knew the world she was portraying.
From BBC ● Oct. 8, 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
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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