autobiography
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The 1974 concept album My Tennessee Mountain Home, meanwhile, is a musical autobiography that opens with Parton reciting the first letter she wrote home after moving to Nashville as a teenager.
From BBC ● Aug. 26, 2026
Dolly Parton, who died Tuesday at the age of 80, was “at least temporarily,” in her words, “a full-fledged movie star,” according to her autobiography “Dolly: My Life and Other Unfinished Business.”
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 25, 2026
In her IMDb autobiography, she recalled early memories of subjecting relatives to renditions of “When I Grow Too Old to Dream,” from the 1935 film “The Night Is Young.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 25, 2026
Harry's 2023 autobiography, "Spare", lifted the veil on his royal rifts, describing William as his "arch-nemesis" and alleging he physically attacked him in a blazing 2019 row about Meghan.
From Barron's ● Aug. 23, 2026
“I soon noticed that, after losing a few games of chess, my opponent talked less of masculine superiority,” she wrote in her autobiography.
From "Votes for Women!" by Winifred Conkling
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
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
Vocabulary lists containing autobiography
Words to Live By: Bio
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Write On!: Graph and Gram
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To Thine Own Self Be True: Auto
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