as in biography
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
Given Hunter had revealed in his autobiography that his annual salary was £12,500, this was enormous money.
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Michael Walker, New York Times, 9 May 2025
In recent decades, as food has claimed pop-culture status, culinary autobiography has become a familiar genre.
—Molly Fischer, New Yorker, 5 May 2025
Michael Jackson doted over what a dedicated mother Katherine is in his 1988 autobiography Moonwalk.
—Elizabeth Ayoola, Essence, 5 May 2025
Adams estimated in her 1989 autobiography, One Woman's Army: A Black Officer Remembers the WAC, that the unit averaged 65,000 pieces of mail per shift.
—Rachel Treisman, NPR, 29 Apr. 2025
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Michael Walker, New York Times, 9 May 2025
In recent decades, as food has claimed pop-culture status, culinary autobiography has become a familiar genre.
—Molly Fischer, New Yorker, 5 May 2025
Michael Jackson doted over what a dedicated mother Katherine is in his 1988 autobiography Moonwalk.
—Elizabeth Ayoola, Essence, 5 May 2025
Adams estimated in her 1989 autobiography, One Woman's Army: A Black Officer Remembers the WAC, that the unit averaged 65,000 pieces of mail per shift.
—Rachel Treisman, NPR, 29 Apr. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for autobiography
biography
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According to her Instagram biography, Zoe is the founder of the fashion brand O’Dolly Dearest.—
Jason Pham,
StyleCaster,
22 May 2025
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But this isn’t just a fun detail that makes their biographies more interesting; failure was central to those individuals’ successes.—
Ciarán McArdle,
Forbes.com,
21 May 2025
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“Autobiography.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/autobiography. Accessed 5 Jun. 2025.
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