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autobiography

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an account of a person's life written by the person it is about I read her autobiography last year and it was surprisingly honest retelling of her rise to fame.

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Recent Examples of autobiography Our first project with Mary was her book The All Night Movie, which is kind of an autobiography as an artist book, and our first show with her came along in 1997, with so many to follow. — Harrison Jacobs, ARTnews.com, 15 Aug. 2026 Robinson, who later served as governor of Kansas during the bloody conflicts leading up to the Civil War, devoted a chapter of his autobiography to the events of that day. — Don Sweeney, Sacbee.com, 15 Aug. 2026 The music is a mixture of autobiography sung in a way that drifts between opera, cabaret and Edith Piaff. — John Bleasdale, Variety, 11 Aug. 2026 According to Rouse, the album grew out of observations gathered while traveling, with its songs populated by drifters, dreamers and fleeting encounters that blur the line between fiction and autobiography. — Spin Staff, SPIN, 4 Aug. 2026 See All Example Sentences for autobiography

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The facts of his biography, no matter how outrageous, could not possibly explain the sheer derangement of his output.

— Becca Rothfeld, New Yorker, 29 Aug. 2026
Over time, those deeply personal references have transcended biography to become one of luxury’s most visible languages.

— Paige Reddinger, Robb Report, 29 Aug. 2026

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