autobiography

[ aw-tuh-bahy-og-ruh-fee, -bee-, aw-toh- ]

noun

, plural au·to·bi·og·ra·phies.

1. a history of a person's life written or told by that person.

autobiography

/ ˌɔːtəʊbaɪˈɒɡrəfɪ; ˌɔːtəbaɪ- /

noun

1. an account of a person's life written or otherwise recorded by that person

autobiography

1. A literary work about the writer's own life. and Isak Dinesen's Out of Africa are autobiographical.

Derived Forms

• ˌautobiˈographer, noun

Other Words From

• auto·bi·ogra·pher noun

Word History and Origins

Origin of autobiography¹

First recorded in 1790–1800; auto- ¹ + biography

Example Sentences

In so doing, she gave us an autobiography that has held up for more than a century.

From Nautilus

His handwritten autobiography reawakens in Lee a longing to know her motherland.

From Outside Online

His elocution, perfected on stage and evident in television and film, make X’s autobiography an easy yet informative listen.

From Essence.com

The book is not so much an autobiography of Hastings — or even Netflix’s origin story.

From Freakonomics

By contrast, Shing-Tung Yau says in his autobiography that the Calabi-Yau manifold was given its name by other people eight years after he proved its existence, which Eugenio Calabi had conjectured some 20 years before that.

From Nautilus

Glow: The Autobiography of Rick JamesRick James David Ritz (Atria Books) Where to begin?

From The Daily Beast

Hulanicki was the subject of a 2009 documentary, Beyond Biba, based on her 2007 autobiography From A to Biba.

From The Daily Beast

And it was also during the phase of the higher autobiography.

From The Daily Beast

“Nighttime was the worst,” Bennett wrote in his autobiography.

From The Daily Beast

Then I picked up a book that shredded my facile preconceptions—Hard Stuff: The Autobiography of Mayor Coleman Young.

From The Daily Beast

No; her parents had but small place in that dramatic autobiography that Daphne was now constructing for herself.

From Project Gutenberg

His collected works, with autobiography, were published in 1865 under the editorship of Charles Hawkins.

From Project Gutenberg

But there is one point about the book that deserves some considering, its credibility as autobiography.

From Project Gutenberg

I thought you were anxious for leisure to complete your autobiography.

From Project Gutenberg

The smallest fragment of a genuine autobiography seems to me valuable for the student of past epochs.

From Project Gutenberg

Related Words

• biography
• confession
• diary
• journal
• letter
• life story
• memoir