Most Read This Week In Autobiography

An autobiography (from the Greek, αὐτός-autos self + βίος-bios life + γράφειν-graphein to write) is a book about the life of a person, written by that person.

Closely associated with autobiography (and sometimes difficult to precisely distinguish from it) is the form of memoir. However, an autobiography typically focuses on the "life and times" of the writer, while a memoir has a narrower, more intimate focus on his or her own memories, feelings and emotions.

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Most Read This Week Tagged "Autobiography"

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Even the Good Girls Will Cry: A '90s Rock Memoir

Ain't Nobody's Fool: The Life and Times of Dolly Parton

The Last Secret Agent: My Life as a Spy Behind Nazi Lines

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Young Man in a Hurry: A Memoir of Discovery

Fly, Wild Swans: My Mother, Myself and China

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You Wanna Be on Top?: A Memoir of Makeovers, Manipulation, and Not Becoming America's Next Top Model

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Endure: How to Work Hard, Outlast, and Keep Hammering

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Nice Girls Don't Win: How I Burned It All Down to Claim My Power

When Gavin Met Stacey and Everything in Between

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In the Days of My Youth I Was Told What It Means to Be a Man: A Memoir

I Don't Need Therapy: and other lies I've told myself

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Unseen: How I Lost My Vision but Found My Voice

Brooke Shields Is Not Allowed to Get Old: Thoughts on Aging as a Woman

Slayers, Every One of Us: How One Girl in All the World Showed Us How to Hold On

Class Clown: The Memoirs of a Professional Wiseass—How I Went 77 Years Without Growing Up

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Quotes Tagged “Autobiography”

“ Mary’s childhood was rough. She was frequently beaten and chastised by the nuns who served as her protectors and brutalized by the older girls in the orphanage. Oh how I wept those first few years of my life. My tears came like tropical storms. Every pore in my body wept. I heaved and shuddered and sighed. Everything around me seemed dark and terrifying. ”
― Maria Nhambu, Africa's Child

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