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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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“While a memoir or formal autobiography aims to offer a retrospective story, the diary typically doesn’t, or can’t, because it is written from the middle of an unfolding life.”

From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 6, 2026

But she has also taken on several money-spinning projects including a documentary called "Melania," made in a multi-million-dollar deal with Amazon, and an audiobook of her autobiography that is narrated by AI.

From Barron's • Mar. 25, 2026

Other than a copy of Bellamy's autobiography on the desk, there is little else decorative in this neat, sparse office at Dragon Park.

From BBC • Mar. 23, 2026

He even penned an autobiography - From Barefoot to Bishop: A Rwandan Refugee's Journey - enthusiastically described by the Church Times website as a "remarkable" account of his beginnings.

From BBC • Mar. 5, 2026

Not only did he answer my letter, but he included his response in his autobiography, sandwiched between letters to Nehru, Khrushchev, T. S. Eliot, D. H. Lawrence, Ludwig Wittgenstein, and other luminaries.

From "Innumeracy: Mathematical Illiteracy and Its Consequences" by John Allen Paulos




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