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autobiography
[ aw-t uh -bahy- og -r uh -fee , -bee- , aw-toh- ]
- a history of a person's life written or told by that person.
/ ˌɔːtəʊbaɪˈɒɡrəfɪ; ˌɔːtəbaɪ- /
- an account of a person's life written or otherwise recorded by that person
- A literary work about the writer's own life. The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin and Isak Dinesen's Out of Africa are autobiographical.
Derived Forms
- ˌautobiˈographer , noun
Other Words From
- auto·bi·ogra·pher noun
Word History and Origins
Origin of autobiography 1
Example Sentences
Chapter 9 is about Frederick Douglass and identity-aware liberalism, as expressed through his autobiographies.
"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."
In her autobiography Leading From The Back, the three-time Women's Super League winner details the struggles she endured as she fought for better pay.
Later in life he took up writing, producing not only a political autobiography but two further books about the "adventures of an old age pensioner".
“In an autobiography, you want your voice to come through. I wanted it to feel like talking to a friend and sharing my story the way I want to tell it,” he says.
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