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Autobiography
Definition
An autobiography is a book about someone's life that is written by that person.
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- write an autobiography
- publish an autobiography
- read an autobiography
- famous autobiography
- autobiography of a
- autobiography of my life
Word family
noun autobiography
adjective autobiographical
Usage note
An autobiography is a narrative written by the subject themselves, distinguishing it from a biography written by someone else. It typically covers the entire span of the author's life up to the point of writing.
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Example sentences
- My autobiography starts with my childhood and goes all the way to my adulthood.
- I read an interesting autobiography of a famous person.
- Writing an autobiography takes a lot of time and effort.
- I found my grandfather's autobiography in the attic and read it.
- I always wanted to write an autobiography but I never got around to it.
Quotes
An autobiography is only to be trusted when it reveals something disgraceful. A man who gives a good account of himself is probably lying, since any life when viewed from the inside is simply a series of defeats.
The greatest events occur without intention playing any part in them; chance makes good mistakes and undoes the most carefully planned undertaking. The world's greatest events are not produced, they happen.
There are three things in the world that deserve no mercy, hypocrisy, fraud, and tyranny.
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