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autobiography

[aw-tuh-bahy-og-ruh-fee, -bee-, aw-toh-] / ˌɔ tə baɪˈɒg rə fi, -bi-, ˌɔ toʊ- /


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His only novel, “The Autobiography of an Ex-Colored Man,” was written during his time in Nicaragua.

From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 28, 2026

Pascoe also told Desert Island Discs host Lauren Laverne that her agent had advised her against including an anecdote about her abortion in her 2016 book Animal: The Autobiography of a Female Body.

From BBC • Mar. 21, 2026

Autobiography presents an alternative to identity-blind frameworks that tend to prioritize ideas to the exclusion of individuals and identity-driven frameworks that ignore the power of unifying ideas in favor of individual experience.

From Salon • Nov. 10, 2024

Autobiography — alertness to lived experience, and nurture of the memory of it — has always been Harris’s natural mode as an artist.

From New York Times • Jun. 7, 2024

My inherent idealism yearns for the issuance of the commemorative stamp and the living document of The Autobiography of Malcolm X to continue to bridge ignorance with insight, and despondency with hope.

From "The Autobiography of Malcolm X" by Alex Malcolm X;Hailey




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