autobiography
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Maya Angelou’s autobiography “I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings” was included in the purge; Adolf Hitler’s “Mein Kampf” was not.
From Salon • May 3, 2026
While still at Real Sociedad in 2013, Griezmann revealed in his autobiography that he came close to joining Arsenal and playing under Arsene Wenger.
From BBC • Apr. 29, 2026
The daily diary is distinct from a formal autobiography.
From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 7, 2026
“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
In her enormously self-serving and revisionist autobiography, she asserted that she agreed to make the film only after Hitler promised to keep Goebbels at bay.
From "The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics" by Daniel James Brown
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Words to Live By: Bio
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To Thine Own Self Be True: Auto
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