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autobiography [aw-tuh-bahy-og-ruh-fee, -bee-, aw-toh-] EXAMPLES|WORD ORIGIN noun, plural au·to·bi·og·ra·phies. a history of a person’s life written or told by that person. Liberaldictionary.com
Origin of autobiography First recorded in 1790–1800; auto-1 + biography Related formsau·to·bi·og·ra·pher, noun Dictionary.com Unabridged Based on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2019 Examples from the Web for autobiographer Historical Examples of autobiographer
Is the fourth dimension of Cobb as a novelist or as an autobiographer?
When Winter Comes to Main Street
Grant Martin Overton
In her style, as in what she writes about, we must concede to the artist what we deny to the autobiographer.
Helen Keller
It is, perhaps, a matter for felicitation that Mr. Kelly has been his own autobiographer.
Jonathan F. Kelley
The autobiographer “complied with the order contained in her dying behest.”
William Cleaver Wilkinson
She is found by the autobiographer alone in a deserted house.
William Cleaver Wilkinson
British Dictionary definitions for autobiographer autobiography noun plural -phies an account of a person’s life written or otherwise recorded by that person Derived Formsautobiographer, noun Collins English Dictionary – Complete & Unabridged 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012 Word Origin and History for autobiographer autobiography n.
1797, from auto- + biography. Related: Autobiographical.
Online Etymology Dictionary, © 2010 Douglas Harper autobiographer in Culture autobiography
A literary work about the writer’s own life. The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin and Isak Dinesen’s Out of Africa are autobiographical.
The New Dictionary of Cultural Literacy, Third Edition Copyright © 2005 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. All rights reserved.
