autobiography
Much of her work is autobiographical.
He is best known as an autobiographical essayist.
The play is loosely autobiographical.
The film is an unflinching autobiographical musical drama.
I've been reading a collection of short autobiographical poems.
There was an autobiographical element to her paintings.

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autobiographical | American Dictionary

autobiographical
adjective
us/ˌɔ·t̬ə·bɑɪ·əˈɡræf·ɪ·kəl, ˈɑ·t̬ə-/
describing the writer or based on the writer’s life:
an autobiographical novel

Examples of autobiographical

autobiographical
Selective recall from the set of available autobiographical memories may also be seen as a type of reconstruction of a person's history.
This article takes as its primary focus two eighteenth-century representations and one nineteenth-century autobiographical account.
We are taken on a journey through key moments in the development of autobiographical genres over two centuries, roughly 1600-1800.
This study explored the relationship between autobiographical memory retrieval and performance on tests of theory of mind in people with schizophrenia.
More than in any other modern scientific project, autobiographical writing and methodological exposition are inextricably intertwined here.
She focuses on schemata: units of autobiographical events which become closed chunks of information through their frequent retelling, and which incorporate bound links.
Their autobiographical works are thus marked, and ultimately enriched, by tension, hesitation, and anxiety, par ticularly regarding their own power and authority as authors.
Researchers in psychology have developed theories about this sort of memory, called episodic or autobiographical memory.
It may be more parsimonious to suggest that recall observed before 2 years of age is explicit, but not necessarily episodic (autobiographical).
Gissing's imaginative engagement with the historically and culturally indeterminate character of the suburbs is matched by autobiographical accounts.
Her skilled autobiographical work communicated fully the painful isolation of monastic life, and the then aesthetically mainstream preference for a life of dreams.
Some of these observations are in the footnotes, but here also we find an autobiographical counterpoint threading the volume.
Walking in our own footsteps : autobiographical memory and reconstruction.
Interestingly, the patients who were not currently deluded performed worse on the autobiographical incidents section of the task compared to those with active delusions.
Moreover, it views the experiencing self or ego as a central component of that autobiographical context.
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