as in biographies
an account of a person's life written by the person it is about
I read her autobiography last year and it was surprisingly honest retelling of her rise to fame.
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Recent Examples of autobiographies
That sounds unremarkable now in a landscape of public diaries, memories, and celebrities reading the audiobooks of their autobiographies, but Pepys was something of a groundbreaking force in the genre.
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Fran Hoepfner, Vulture, 5 Aug. 2025
Fran Hoepfner, Vulture, 5 Aug. 2025
Recent Examples of Synonyms for autobiographies
Noun
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Several biographies have been written about her.—
Christine Estima
September 12,
Literary Hub,
12 Sep. 2025
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Most about sections read like unedited biographies.—
Jodie Cook,
Forbes.com,
11 Sep. 2025
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In nonfiction, Slovak has edited memoirs by Elizabeth Gilbert, David Byrne, and Leslie Marmon Silko, and works of natural and cultural history by Robert Macfarlane, David George Haskell, and Rebecca Solnit.—
Paul Slovak
September 16,
Literary Hub,
16 Sep. 2025
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Also starring Timothée Chalamet, Beautiful Boy is based on a pair of memoirs by father and son David and Nic Sheff.—
Catherine Santino,
PEOPLE,
6 Sep. 2025
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“Autobiographies.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/autobiographies. Accessed 17 Sep. 2025.
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