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noun - a biography of yourself
AUTOBIOGRAPHY - An autobiography (from the Greek, -autos self + -bios life + -graphein to write) is a self-written account of the life of oneself. The word "autobio...
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The story of me, by me (13) |
Sylvia Plath's "The Bell Jar" is described as this, as it's partially based on incidents in her own life |
In Japan alone, Lee Iacocca has sold 500,000 copies of this |
Margery Kempe's "Book Of Margery Kempe" is one of the first examples of this genre in English |
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The biography of a person written by that person. |
an account of a person's life written by that person. |
a biography of yourself |
An account of a person's life written by that person. |
a book about a person's life, written by that person: |
the area of literature relating to such books: |
someone who writes (an) autobiography: |
the story of a persons life as written by that person, or the area of literature relating to books that describe such stories: |
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An autobiography (from the Greek, -autos self + -bios life + -graphein to write) is a self-written account of the life of oneself. The word "autobiography" was first used deprecatingly by William Taylor in 1797 in the English periodical The Monthly Review, when he suggested the word as a hybrid, but condemned it as "pedantic". However, its next recorded use was in its present sense, by Robert Southey in 1809. Despite only being named early in the nineteenth century, first-person autobiographical writing originates in antiquity. Roy Pascal differentiates autobiography from the periodic self-reflective mode of journal or diary writing by noting that "[autobiography] is a review of a life from a particular moment in time, while the diary, however reflective it may be, moves through a series of moments in time". Autobiography thus takes stock of the autobiographer's life from the moment of composition. While biographers generally rely on a wide variety of documents and viewpoints, autobio |