Autobiography
noun
A book someone writes about their own life.
He published an autobiography detailing his journey from a child in poverty to a successful businessman.
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- write an autobiography
- publish an autobiography
noun
The process of writing about one's own life.
In their autobiography classes, students are taught to critically reflect on their life experiences.
Often appears as...
- teach autobiography
- study autobiography
noun
A book someone writes about their own life.
He published an autobiography detailing his journey from a child in poverty to a successful businessman.
Often appears as...
- write an autobiography
- publish an autobiography
noun
The process of writing about one's own life.
In their autobiography classes, students are taught to critically reflect on their life experiences.
Often appears as...
- teach autobiography
- study autobiography
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Pro Tip 1/3First Person
Autobiographies are written from the author's perspective, using 'I' or 'we'.
In my autobiography, I detail the first time I took the stage.
Pro Tip 2/3Honest Reflection
Authors often share personal successes and admit failures honestly for authenticity.
My autobiography uncovers both my career highs and personal lows.
Pro Tip 3/3Chronological Order
Autobiographies typically follow a timeline from early life to present.
The autobiography starts with her childhood and ends with her recent achievements.
Pro Tip 1/3First Person
Autobiographies are written from the author's perspective, using 'I' or 'we'.
In my autobiography, I detail the first time I took the stage.
Pro Tip 2/3Honest Reflection
Authors often share personal successes and admit failures honestly for authenticity.
My autobiography uncovers both my career highs and personal lows.
Pro Tip 3/3Chronological Order
Autobiographies typically follow a timeline from early life to present.
The autobiography starts with her childhood and ends with her recent achievements.
Pro Tip 1/3First Person
Autobiographies are written from the author's perspective, using 'I' or 'we'.
In my autobiography, I detail the first time I took the stage.
Pro Tip 2/3Honest Reflection
Authors often share personal successes and admit failures honestly for authenticity.
My autobiography uncovers both my career highs and personal lows.
Pro Tip 3/3Chronological Order
Autobiographies typically follow a timeline from early life to present.
The autobiography starts with her childhood and ends with her recent achievements.
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Where good ideas come...
in the back of people's minds. They have a feeling that there's an interesting problem, but they don't quite have the tools yet to discover them. They spend all this time working on certain problems, but there's another thing lingering there that they're interested in, but can't quite solve. Darwin is a great example of this. Darwin himself, in his autobiography,
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Embrace your raw,...
You've been hired to write an autobiography. It's a straightforward exercise. It's got a beginning, middle and end, and is grounded in the facts of your life. And by the way, there's a great tradition of autobiography in this country, led by people on the margins of society who write to assert their existence.
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The real story of Rosa...
not that you were not even the first or the second or even the third woman to be arrested for doing that. You become an accidental activist, even in her own lifetime. So she wrote that autobiography to correct the record, because what she wanted to remind people of
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How record collectors...
We believe in human recommendations over algorithms. I could talk about the passion of record digging for days, but let me conclude this way. After many years of doing it, a record collector's collection becomes sort of his autobiography.
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3 ways to measure your...
through dedication and hard work. On the last page of Gandhi's autobiography, he wrote, "I must reduce myself to zero." At many points in his very full life, he was still seeking to return to a beginner's mindset, to zero. To unlearn.
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Pardis Parker: I’m tired...
in the emissary said thanks i'm rooting for you too i don't need you to root for me man i need your help life's hard i'm struggling i told my friend i was wrong she goes haven't you ever read any autobiographies
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National Geographic...
In his autobiography, Ansel Adams said, if he was a kid today he would be described as a ADD child. Whatever it was, he didn't do well in school and his father took him out of school in the 8th grade
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America Ferrera: My...
in which she saw her own dream of becoming a writer reflected. In her autobiography, Malala wrote, "I had become interested in journalism after seeing how my own words could make a difference
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Let's get honest about...
Are you bored? Or are you just excited? But there's deeper work that needs to happen. How did you get all these money beliefs to begin with? I call this your money autobiography,
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Can you solve the...
1 six, 0 sevens, 0 eights, and 0 nines. The safe swings open, and inside you find Da Vinci’s long-lost autobiography.
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Where good ideas come...
in the back of people's minds. They have a feeling that there's an interesting problem, but they don't quite have the tools yet to discover them. They spend all this time working on certain problems, but there's another thing lingering there that they're interested in, but can't quite solve. Darwin is a great example of this. Darwin himself, in his autobiography,
Video examples
Embrace your raw,...
You've been hired to write an autobiography. It's a straightforward exercise. It's got a beginning, middle and end, and is grounded in the facts of your life. And by the way, there's a great tradition of autobiography in this country, led by people on the margins of society who write to assert their existence.
Video examples
The real story of Rosa...
not that you were not even the first or the second or even the third woman to be arrested for doing that. You become an accidental activist, even in her own lifetime. So she wrote that autobiography to correct the record, because what she wanted to remind people of
Video examples
How record collectors...
We believe in human recommendations over algorithms. I could talk about the passion of record digging for days, but let me conclude this way. After many years of doing it, a record collector's collection becomes sort of his autobiography.
Video examples
3 ways to measure your...
through dedication and hard work. On the last page of Gandhi's autobiography, he wrote, "I must reduce myself to zero." At many points in his very full life, he was still seeking to return to a beginner's mindset, to zero. To unlearn.
Video examples
Pardis Parker: I’m tired...
in the emissary said thanks i'm rooting for you too i don't need you to root for me man i need your help life's hard i'm struggling i told my friend i was wrong she goes haven't you ever read any autobiographies
Video examples
National Geographic...
In his autobiography, Ansel Adams said, if he was a kid today he would be described as a ADD child. Whatever it was, he didn't do well in school and his father took him out of school in the 8th grade
Video examples
America Ferrera: My...
in which she saw her own dream of becoming a writer reflected. In her autobiography, Malala wrote, "I had become interested in journalism after seeing how my own words could make a difference
Video examples
Let's get honest about...
Are you bored? Or are you just excited? But there's deeper work that needs to happen. How did you get all these money beliefs to begin with? I call this your money autobiography,
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Can you solve the...
1 six, 0 sevens, 0 eights, and 0 nines. The safe swings open, and inside you find Da Vinci’s long-lost autobiography.
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Jenni Rivera
American Musician
I realized going back and writing and explaining in details the difficulties I had lived actually became emotional again. It's like therapy but sometimes therapy can be painful. But it's part of life and part of the autobiography so I'll have to finish it sooner or later.
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Homer Hickam
American Author
A memoir is not an autobiography. It's a true story told as a novel, using techniques of novelization. The author is allowed to compress events, combine characters, change names, change the sequence of events, just as if he's writing a novel. But it's got to be true.
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Greg Lake
British Musician
When I was writing my autobiography, these songs came up from time to time which were important to me, and I realized that what they really represented was, they'd come from this age of shared music.
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Eleanor Roosevelt
American First Lady
Autobiographies are only useful as the lives you read about and analyze may suggest to you something that you may find useful in your own journey through life.
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John Bishop
British Comedian
Panto!' is basically my life. It's not a comedy drama; it's a documentary. I was going to write an autobiography, but I thought I'd write this instead.
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Jeffrey Brown
American Cartoonist
I usually balance out autobiography with goofy, amusing stuff to help keep the humour in my more serious work.
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Humphrey Carpenter
English Author
Autobiography is probably the most respectable form of lying.
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Mary J. Blige
American Musician
My Life' is not an autobiography. It's just music.
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Sidney Poitier
American Actor
My autobiography was simply the story of my life.
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Daphne du Maurier
English Novelist
All autobiography is self-indulgent.
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Jenni Rivera
American Musician
I realized going back and writing and explaining in details the difficulties I had lived actually became emotional again. It's like therapy but sometimes therapy can be painful. But it's part of life and part of the autobiography so I'll have to finish it sooner or later.
Quote examples
Homer Hickam
American Author
A memoir is not an autobiography. It's a true story told as a novel, using techniques of novelization. The author is allowed to compress events, combine characters, change names, change the sequence of events, just as if he's writing a novel. But it's got to be true.
Quote examples
Greg Lake
British Musician
When I was writing my autobiography, these songs came up from time to time which were important to me, and I realized that what they really represented was, they'd come from this age of shared music.
Quote examples
Eleanor Roosevelt
American First Lady
Autobiographies are only useful as the lives you read about and analyze may suggest to you something that you may find useful in your own journey through life.
Quote examples
John Bishop
British Comedian
Panto!' is basically my life. It's not a comedy drama; it's a documentary. I was going to write an autobiography, but I thought I'd write this instead.
Quote examples
Jeffrey Brown
American Cartoonist
I usually balance out autobiography with goofy, amusing stuff to help keep the humour in my more serious work.
Quote examples
Humphrey Carpenter
English Author
Autobiography is probably the most respectable form of lying.
Quote examples
Mary J. Blige
American Musician
My Life' is not an autobiography. It's just music.
Quote examples
Sidney Poitier
American Actor
My autobiography was simply the story of my life.
Quote examples
Daphne du Maurier
English Novelist
All autobiography is self-indulgent.
Example 1 of 10
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