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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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In her autobiography, to be published in early 2027, she says she was a "rebellious little girl", determined to show that people did not need "the right name" to succeed.

From Barron's ● Oct. 29, 2026

In his 2010 autobiography, My Life on Mars, he recalled a builder stopping him in The Open University car park to shake his hand.

From BBC ● Oct. 8, 2026

He co-authored an autobiography, released in 2004, titled “Fred Claire: My 30 Years in Dodger Blue.”

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 6, 2026

I would photograph each object and write down the story behind it, like a mini autobiography: why I kept it, what it says about who I was at the time.

From MarketWatch ● Sep. 29, 2026

While on the abolition speaking circuit, Douglass’s fame grew, and in 1845, he published his first of three works of autobiography, Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, an American Slave.

From "In the Shadow of Liberty" by Kenneth C. Davis

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

“The projections mirror and amplify that as part of the visual vocabulary, whether that’s Douglass’ newspaper articles or autobiographies, or the text of the Emancipation Proclamation.”

From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 16, 2025

"In fact she wrote two autobiographies herself so the story is out there but although she was known completely throughout the Commonwealth she is hardly known today which is sad."

From BBC ● Nov. 10, 2024

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

From Salon ● Nov. 10, 2024

Pamphlets of verse by negro poets, autobiographies of colored orators.

From "The Underground Railroad: A Novel" by Colson Whitehead


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