autobiographical

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autobiography
noun[ C/U ]
us/ˌɔt̬·ə·bɑɪˈɑɡ·rə·fi/
literature
the story of a person’s life as written by that person, or the area of literature relating to books that describe such stories:
[ U ]The book was a mixture of family history and autobiography.

Examples of autobiography

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Critics often applaud rock autobiographies that go at least partially ' against type'.
First, rock autobiographies typically disclose previously uncirculated or private stories from an ' insider' point of view.
On a more general level, this book points to the perennial difficulties that confront historians who try to incorporate autobiographies in their studies.
Indeed, this process shapes one of the criteria by which they judge rock autobiographies.
Even where less tendentious autobiographies are involved, a lifetime's reading is a heterogeneous business that must often defy the powers of an autobiographer's memory.
Her evidence is drawn from a huge variety of plays, letters, prose fictions, biographies, autobiographies, and journalism.
All of these autobiographies have the character of survival stories.
However, a careful comparison of the two autobiographies, and of how the authors represent their teachers, can be a very instructive exercise.
In other instances, women are portrayed in the autobiographies almost as an intrusion into the main narrative of the text.
The value of these autobiographies may, quite often, lie in what they omit to mention.
In this way, of course, the reviewing of rock autobiographies resembles the reviewing of rock music.
The work simultaneously reinforced and negated the rhetoric of resistance and revolution espoused in the first two autobiographies, dulling its own effectiveness as a tool of social reform.
Their data come from published autobiographies of highly literate immigrants that describe linguistic and psychological transformations as the immigrants adapt to new social and linguistic realities.
In particular, we use evidence from a data set of household budgets originally collected over the course of the industrial revolution and supplement this with histories taken from working-class autobiographies.
The study is divided into three sections dealing with autobiographies relevant to a general reading of photography, autobiographies that actually include photographs, and autobiographies of photographers.
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