autobiography
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When she said she needed space after her divorce, he obliged, then called her a few months later and asked, “Will you go out with me now?” according to his autobiography.
From The Wall Street Journal • May 6, 2026
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
That year Kershaw also released an autobiography entitled No Off Switch, detailing his life and career.
From BBC • Apr. 17, 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
Essays impersonating an autobiography; six chapters of sad, fuguelike repetition.
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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