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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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Lagarde’s own future is likely to be discussed due to the news that her autobiography, to be titled “Lady First,” is set to be published in January.

From MarketWatch Sep. 9, 2026

Archival discoveries, including a long-forgotten 19th-century autobiography, are changing how historians understand Shadrack Byfield, an English veteran of the War of 1812 who buried his own amputated arm and later created a custom prosthesis.

From Science Daily Sep. 7, 2026

He even published his autobiography, but instead of summing up his career, it restarted it.

From The Wall Street Journal Aug. 28, 2026

"My mother had regrets about my birth, and I was driven to the edge psychologically," she wrote in her autobiography, "A Personal History of Polka Dots".

From Barron's Aug. 27, 2026

In her autobiography, Elizabeth described the discussions of abolition and women’s rights at Peterboro as “white hot.”

From "Votes for Women!" by Winifred Conkling

She watched as much soccer as she could and read player autobiographies.

From Los Angeles Times Aug. 12, 2026

What if autobiographies or books about history are more your thing?

From BBC Jul. 31, 2026

The book’s leading actors have been subjects of biographies and autobiographies, and most events have been exhaustively covered in scholarly and popular histories and articles as well as media reports.

From The Wall Street Journal Dec. 16, 2025

Chapter 9 is about Frederick Douglass and identity-aware liberalism, as expressed through his autobiographies.

From Salon Nov. 10, 2024

It is not enough to say that my mother and father do not want to write their autobiographies.

From "Hunger of Memory" by Richard Rodriguez




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