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
Counsel, the Courtroom Is Open: Lessons from More Than a Half-Century in Law and Life
Actually, Nevermind
Ungrateful Immigrant Daughter: A Memoir From the Child of a Mail-Order Bride
The Third Gilmore Girl: A Memoir
From Here to the Great Unknown
An Unexpected Life: A Memoir
Never Say Die
Fictional Selves
Cancel Me If You Can
Is It Too Late to Make a Run for It?
A Voice Like Mine
Beyond the Wand: The Magic & Mayhem of Growing Up a Wizard
»Mama, bitte lern Deutsch«: Unser Eingliederungsversuch in eine geschlossene Gesellschaft
The Make-Believe: A Memoir of Magic and Madness
L'Effondrement
Death of an Ordinary Man
Ain't Nobody's Fool: The Life and Times of Dolly Parton
Mailman: My Wild Ride Delivering the Mail in Appalachia and Finally Finding Home
True Crime: A Memoir
Departure[s]
Will
These Precious Days: Essays
Plot Twist: Life, Craft, and the Messy First Draft: A Memoir on Writing
Changer : Méthode
Combats et métamorphoses d'une femme
Cher: The Memoir, Part One
Ghost Stories
Paper Girl: A Memoir of Home and Family in a Fractured America
The Strangers
Communion: Finding My Way Back to Faith
Hostage
And Away...
When We See You Again
Yearbook
Wolf
I Regret Almost Everything
Niente di vero
La Nuit au cœur
Adult Braces: Driving Myself Sane
Last Rites
Love, Pamela
Labor: One Woman's Work
El cuerpo de Cristo
What I Ate in One Year (And Related Thoughts)
Devout: Losing My Faith to Find Myself
A Waiter in Paris: Adventures in the Dark Heart of the City
Devil on My Shoulder: A Memoir
Junglekeeper: What It Takes to Change the World
Patriot: A Memoir
When Gavin Met Stacey and Everything in Between
Sonny Boy
Disney Adults: Exploring (and Falling in Love with) a Magical Subculture
El loco de Dios en el fin del mundo
The Wound Is Where the Light Enters: A Memoir of Resilience
Alligator Tears: A Memoir in Essays
Code Name: Pale Horse: How I Went Undercover to Expose America's Nazis
A Truce That Is Not Peace
The Book of Sheen
The Eyes of Gaza: A Diary of Resilience
Raised by a Serial Killer: Discovering the Truth About My Father
This Much is True
Thirst: Twelve Drinks that Changed My Life
Cry for Me, Argentina: My Life as a Failed Child Star
I Don't Need Therapy: and other lies I've told myself
Great and Unfortunate Things
Du darfst nicht alles glauben, was du denkst
Por si las voces vuelven
Before & Laughter: A Life Changing Book
I Choose Me
Even the Good Girls Will Cry: A '90s Rock Memoir
Fly, Wild Swans: My Mother, Myself and China
Notes to John
Ik ga leven
The Solo Honeymoon: A Brief Beautiful True Love Story
The Möbius Book
The Accidental Soldier
Dinners with Ruth: A Memoir on the Power of Friendships
Dad, Love, Me: A Memoir
Nice Girls Don't Win: How I Burned It All Down to Claim My Power
So Gay for You: Friendship, Found Family, and the Show That Started It All
Becoming Little Shell: A Landless Indian’s Journey Home
A Pocketful of Happiness
Dirtbag, Massachusetts: A Confessional
An Expert Witness: The Story of Forensic Science in the Courtroom
Diddly Squat: The Farmer's Dog
The Last Secret Agent: My Life as a Spy Behind Nazi Lines
Loud: Accept Nothing Less Than the Life You Deserve
Diddly Squat: Pigs Might Fly
What the Dead Know: Learning About Life as a New York City Death Investigator
Lügen über meine Mutter
What Doesn't Kill You Makes You Hotter
Reacher: The Stories Behind the Stories
Rebel Homemaker: Food, Family, Life
Diddly Squat: ‘Til The Cows Come Home
Madly, Deeply: The Diaries of Alan Rickman
Unspeakable: Surviving My Childhood and Finding My Voice
Reconnected: How 7 Screen-Free Weeks with Monks and Amish Farmers Helped Me Recover the Lost Art of Being Human
Oath and Honor: A Memoir and a Warning
Choosing to Run: A Memoir

“ I had a long talk with my dear Fat Mary that night, because I had many questions. Could someone actually be beaten to death by such a nun? Did Mother Rufina, the new Superior, know that Sister Clotilda was so cruel? Who let her work with children? Could nuns go to hell? Fat Mary told me she didn’t know the answers to my questions, but she reminded me that it was her role to take my worries and burdens and keep them for me until a time when I could understand them. ”
― Maria Nhambu, Africa's Child

Bob Dylan
“ My big fear was that my guitar would go out of tune. ”
― Bob Dylan, Chronicles, Volume One

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