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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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To gain more agency, for example, you can tend the garden for an hour or write your autobiography.

From MarketWatch Sep. 18, 2026

In his first autobiography, Managing My Life, he recounts the experience like this:

From BBC Sep. 9, 2026

Archival discoveries, including a long-forgotten 19th-century autobiography, are changing how historians understand Shadrack Byfield, an English veteran of the War of 1812 who buried his own amputated arm and later created a custom prosthesis.

From Science Daily Sep. 7, 2026

“To me it was simple arithmetic,” she explained in her autobiography.

From The Wall Street Journal Aug. 29, 2026

Malala’s autobiography, I Am Malala, is better than the rest of the books I’ve read about her.

From "Amina's Song" by Hena Khan

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

Scotusblog, a website devoted to covering the Supreme Court, in 2012 posted a list of 353 books written or edited by justices since 1776, from autobiographies and poetry to legal theory and ruminations on war.

From New York Times Jul. 27, 2023

Considered by many to be one of the best military autobiographies in history, Grant’s life story was a bestseller.

From "Lincoln's Last Days: The Shocking Assassination that Changed America Forever" by Bill O'Reilly




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