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
“I never had a definite place which was my room or where I retired specially to write,” Agatha Christie said in her autobiography.
From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 27, 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
He even penned an autobiography - From Barefoot to Bishop: A Rwandan Refugee's Journey - enthusiastically described by the Church Times website as a "remarkable" account of his beginnings.
From BBC • Mar. 5, 2026
“All the journals from Maine to Texas seemed to strive with each other to see which could make our movement appear the most ridiculous,” Elizabeth Cady Stanton wrote in her autobiography.
From "Votes for Women!" by Winifred Conkling
Vocabulary lists containing autobiography
Words to Live By: Bio
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To Thine Own Self Be True: Auto
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