1. a history of a person's life written or told by that person.
Examples from the web for autobiography
- At the end of his life, he wrote an autobiography for his children that was totally candid, and not intended for publication.
- autobiography: a written history of your life written by you.
- Of the nature of an autobiography rather than of a diary, this is one of the most delightful books of the kind in the language.
- Cutler insists the work is not an autobiography masquerading as a novel.
- His now famous autobiography was published posthumously in 1965.
- His autobiography, skilfully interweaving the personal and the historical, is elegantly simple and marvellously clear.
- He once put online a highly provocative autobiography.
- He may have lost his job, but there is only a ghost-writer's keyboard between him and a lucrative celebrity autobiography.
- Your resume should be a short marketing piece, not an autobiography.
- Collins has written more than 100 songs and nine books, including an autobiography, a novel and songbooks.
British Dictionary definitions for autobiography
noun (
pl)
-phies 1. an account of a person's life written or otherwise recorded by that person
Word Origin and History for autobiography
autobiography in Culture
autobiography definition
A literary work about the writer's own life. The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin and Isak Dinesen's Out of Africa are autobiographical.