autobiography

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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

Pascoe is known for being open about her personal life in her work, having also written in her autobiography about having an abortion when she was 17.

From BBC • Mar. 21, 2026

Jackson recounted in his autobiography that King told him, “Come with me full time and you’ll learn more theology in six months than you would in six years at the seminary.”

From Los Angeles Times • Feb. 17, 2026

As he recorded in his autobiography, “I set out with high hope, and a fixed purpose, at whatever cost of trouble, to learn how to read.”

From "In the Shadow of Liberty" by Kenneth C. Davis