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• Smith was listed as the author of his autobiography, but a ghostwriter did most of the work.From the entry ghostwriter
• Her autobiography gives all the gory details of her many divorces.From the entry gory
• The aborigine's autobiography was also an autoethnography. It told much about the culture he grew up in.From the entry autoethnography
• His autobiography, entitled Life of a Driver, was a best-seller.From the entry entitle
• He wrote a boastful autobiography, recording all his great deeds.From the entry boastful
• Merkel, whose autobiography is out this autumn, has declined to comment publicly on the series.2024 July 13, Guy Chazan, “Ex-chancellor’s imagined career as a sleuth hits Italian TV”, in FT Weekend, London: The Financial Times Ltd.…. From the entry lap up
• “It was, in fact, her natural walk,” he wrote in his autobiography.2010, Jessica Kerwin Jenkins, Encyclopedia of the Exquisite. From the entry toeprint
• At night, as creative author, the cognoscente sketched out the first draft of his expanded autobiography.1998, Marc J. Seifer, chapter 42, in Wizard: The Life and Times of Nikola Tesla: Biography of a Genius, →ISBN, page 397. From the entry cognoscente
• Her prolegomenon is intended to be read as fiction not autobiography.1990 April 28, Patricia Roth Schwartz, “The Odd Couple”, in Gay Community News, page 7. From the entry prolegomenon
• The doctor's autobiography contains a detailed description of the early Dodge City.1950, Robert Lewis Taylor, The Running Pianist, page 212. From the entry missionarying
• His autobiography was later turned into the Wolf of Wall Street movie, starring Leonardo Di Caprio and directed by Martin Scorsese.2021 February 2, Mark Sweney, Graeme Wearden, “GameStop shares plunge as traders dump stock”, in The Guardian. From the entry pump and dump
• In what follows, I look at autographics, interfaces, and avatar autobiography as three forms of virtualized life narrative existing today.2012, Joe Bray, Alison Gibbons, Brian McHale, The Routledge Companion to Experimental Literature, →ISBN, page 515. From the entry autographics
• Scattered through his trilogical autobiography (and perhaps elsewhere in his other works) are tantalizing glimpses of his aerial adventures.1987, Colin F. Howard, Slowmotional Meditation (bradykinesthesia), page 232. From the entry trilogical
• When told to put on white trousers, he later remembered in his autobiography, he replied: "I don't want to be an ice-cream seller."2025 April 21, Peter Stanford, “Pope Francis obituary: Leader of the Catholic church who pushed for social and economic justice, and an…. From the entry mozzetta
• Recognizing the frequency of these "epiphanal turning points" and "crises of dedication" in the autobiographies of Central America peace movement leaders raises intriguing questions.2010, Christian Smith, Resisting Reagan: The U.S. Central America Peace Movement. From the entry epiphanal
• The present one is a sort of multilayered autobiography, each book holding the moment in which I opened it for the first time.2008 May 15, Alberto Manguel, “A 30,000-Volume Window on the World”, in New York Times. From the entry library
• His autobiography, I, Cyborg, which came out last month (Century, £16.99), meticulously catalogues his very many newspaper, magazine, radio and TV appearances.2002 September 19, “Short Cuts”, in London Review of Books, volume 24, number 18, Thomas Jones. From the entry cyborg
• Pirrup's self-lacerating autobiography was the superior snobography, the true inside story, not the omniscient narrator's satiric yet forgiving biography of Arthur Pendennis.2002, Jerome Meckier, Dickens's Great Expectations: Misnar's Pavilion Versus Cinderella. From the entry snobography
• 'Midge was such a dingbat', Jenny Fields wrote in her autobiography, 'that she went to Hawaii for a vacation during World War Two.'1978, John Irving, chapter 2, in World according to Garp. From the entry dingbat
• After his childhood, which is the readablest part of even the worst autobiography, his attempts to escape from his subject are pitiable.1949, George Bernard Shaw, “My Apology for This Book”, in Sixteen Self Sketches, New York, N.Y.: Dodd, Mead & Company, →OCLC, page 19. From the entry readable
• For zealous Lovecraftians there are a few choice tidbits—a short autobiography, his commonplace book, and his “History and Chronology of the Necronomicon.”1944, The New York Times Book Review, page 19. From the entry Lovecraftian
• And I dipped into novels so like the unpleasanter parts of my own life that they might just as well have been autobiographies.1921, Walter de la Mare, “Chapter 37”, in Memoirs of a Midget. From the entry unpleasant
• In Karl Shapiro's autobiography there's a picture of Shapiro sitting at a round table with some of his students, and one of his students is Ted Kooser.2009, Nicholson Baker, The Anthologist, page 133. From the entry sticky-outy
• Thus, this paper explores the perspective of “early insiders” through an historical analysis of autobiographies, biographies, and magazine articles written by and about early US newspaper reporters and editors.2003 June, Denise E. DeLorme et al., “Journalists' Hostility towards Public Relations”, in Public Relations Review, volume 23, number 2. From the entry historical
• The recent development of a distinct subgenre of autobiography, the culinary memoir, is another indication that women’s food-writing is increasingly perceived and cast within more formal, literary conventions.2003, Tamar Heller, Patricia Moran, “Introduction: Scenes of the Apple: Appetite, Desire, Writing”, in Tamar Heller, Patricia Moran…. From the entry food-writing
• It is his lesbophilia that sets Proust's narrator apart from the author, that marks the novel as a novel rather than a perverse exercise in selective autobiography.1999, Elisabeth Ladenson, Proust's Lesbianism, Cornell University Press, published 1999, →ISBN, page 133. From the entry lesbophilia

Meaning of autobiography

1. noun A self-written biography; the story of one's own life.
2. noun Biographies of this kind regarded as a literary genre.

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Questions about autobiography in a sentence

How do you use autobiography in a sentence?

Autobiography is used as a noun. For example: “Smith was listed as the author of his autobiography, but a ghostwriter did most of the work.”

What is a short sentence with autobiography?

“He wrote a boastful autobiography, recording all his great deeds.”

What does autobiography mean?

Autobiography means a self-written biography; the story of one's own life.