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.

Also see Biography Memoir and Memoir.
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Most Read This Week Tagged "Autobiography"

I'm Glad My Mom Died
This Is Me: A Reckoning
Dogs, Boys, and Other Things I’ve Cried About
Counsel, the Courtroom Is Open: Lessons from More Than a Half-Century in Law and Life
From Here to the Great Unknown
Cancel Me If You Can
All That's Unseen: An Appalachian Memoir
The Third Gilmore Girl: A Memoir
Trash! A Garbageman's Story
The Make-Believe: A Memoir of Magic and Madness
Yearbook
Ain't Nobody's Fool: The Life and Times of Dolly Parton
Beyond the Wand: The Magic & Mayhem of Growing Up a Wizard
»Mama, bitte lern Deutsch«: Unser Eingliederungsversuch in eine geschlossene Gesellschaft
Communion: Finding My Way Back to Faith
These Precious Days: Essays
Mailman: My Wild Ride Delivering the Mail in Appalachia and Finally Finding Home
Cher: The Memoir, Part One
True Crime: A Memoir
Ghost Stories
Departure[s]
Combats et métamorphoses d'une femme
Adult Braces: Driving Myself Sane
Transcendent: A Memoir
Changer : Méthode
Devout: Losing My Faith to Find Myself
Paper Girl: A Memoir of Home and Family in a Fractured America
Will
When We See You Again
Niente di vero
I Regret Almost Everything
Hostage
What I Ate in One Year (And Related Thoughts)
And Away...
Love, Pamela
Ordinary Heroes: A Memoir of 9/11
The Wound Is Where the Light Enters: A Memoir of Resilience
Thirst: Twelve Drinks that Changed My Life
When Gavin Met Stacey and Everything in Between
L'Effondrement
Code Name: Pale Horse: How I Went Undercover to Expose America's Nazis
I Choose Me
What Doesn't Kill You Makes You Hotter
El cuerpo de Cristo
Sonny Boy
Last Rites
Raised by a Serial Killer: Discovering the Truth About My Father
Reality Check: Making the Best of The Situation - How I Overcame Addiction, Loss, and Prison
I'm a Lot: Surviving Myself and All the People I've Been
The Book of Sheen
The Eyes of Gaza: A Diary of Resilience
Patriot: A Memoir
The Solo Honeymoon: A Brief Beautiful True Love Story
Junglekeeper: What It Takes to Change the World
A Truce That Is Not Peace
Endure: How to Work Hard, Outlast, and Keep Hammering
Great and Unfortunate Things
La Nuit au cœur
Alligator Tears: A Memoir in Essays
Did I Ever Tell You This?
Lügen über meine Mutter
Por si las voces vuelven
Even the Good Girls Will Cry: A '90s Rock Memoir
The Accidental Soldier
Wolf
Cry for Me, Argentina: My Life as a Failed Child Star
Head North: A Rallying Cry for a More Equal Britain
A Waiter in Paris: Adventures in the Dark Heart of the City
Hermanito
This Much is True
In the Realm of the Last Man
So Gay for You: Friendship, Found Family, and the Show That Started It All
Diddly Squat: ‘Til The Cows Come Home
Before & Laughter: A Life Changing Book
Death of an Ordinary Man
Free Ride
Pathemata, Or, The Story of My Mouth
Loud: Accept Nothing Less Than the Life You Deserve
What the Dead Know: Learning About Life as a New York City Death Investigator
A Screaming Life: Into the Superunknown with Soundgarden and Beyond
El loco de Dios en el fin del mundo
Mama huilt harder
The Half of It: A Memoir
Beladen huis
Diddly Squat: The Farmer's Dog
The Möbius Book
Freedom: Memoirs 1954-2021
Diddly Squat: Home to Roost
Jesusland: Stories from the Upside Down World of Christian Pop Culture
Fly, Wild Swans: My Mother, Myself and China
The Season
The Last Secret Agent: My Life as a Spy Behind Nazi Lines
Dinners with Ruth: A Memoir on the Power of Friendships
The Tribe and I Have Spoken: The Definitive (Unofficial) Lore and Legacy from the Game's Smartest Surviving Loser
Will There Ever Be Another You
Coming Up Short: A Memoir of My America
Making the Best of What's Left: When We're Too Old to Get the Chairs Reupholstered
Paper Doll: Notes from a Late Bloomer
Star-Spangled Jesus: Leaving Christian Nationalism and Finding A True Faith
Over the Influence: A Memoir

Barry Manilow
I believe that we are who we choose to be. Nobody is going to come and save you. You've got to save yourself. Nobody is going to give you anything. You've got to go out and fight for it. Nobody knows what you want except you, and nobody will be as sorry as you if you don't get it. So don't give up your dreams. ...more
Barry Manilow, Sweet Life: Adventures On The Way To Paradise

Frank W. Abagnale
Former police chief of Houston once said of me: “Frank Abagnale could write a check on toilet paper, drawn on the Confederate States Treasury, sign it ‘U.R. Hooked’ and cash it at any bank in town, using a Hong Kong driver’s license for identification.
Frank W. Abagnale, Catch Me If You Can: The True Story of a Real Fake

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