How To Use Autobiography In A Sentence

Moceanu has written an autobiography, had book signings and cashed in on corporate and commercial appearances.
A short autobiography is prefixed to the 1827 edition of Juvenal.
I had just published my autobiography, which met with universal disapproval. Times, Sunday Times
In this rather archaically written biography, marred by ornate, stilted language and the author's reliance on and citation of endlessly extended passages from his great-great-grandfather's autobiography, James Mellon struggles mightily but fails to make his readers care much for or about Thomas Mellon. Banking On the Future
A ghosted autobiography requires a deep bond between sportsman and journalist. Times, Sunday Times

How grateful and enlightened he must be to have that cleared up: one wouldn't want a thicko to write one's autobiography.
Well, you can wait for the autobiography or you can come with me to shop for formalwear.
One final irony: In 1950, at age 82, Millikan published his Autobiography, with Chapter 9 entitled simply "The Experimental Proof of the Existence of the Photon--Einstein's Photoelectric Equation.
Her mother, Jackiey, the daughter of a market trader, was described in her daughter's autobiography as a petty thief and "clipper" - a woman who pretends to be a prostitute but runs off with the money instead. DUFF & NONSENSE!
As he accepts, it would have been dishonest to write an autobiography without touching on this subject. Times, Sunday Times
After all, in her 1993 autobiography she disclosed one or two juicier titbits contained in the files, which she was allowed to see soon after the Wall came down.
Between these two positions lies a range of literacy activity, such as personal autobiography, diaries, functional lists etc.
Indeed there is probably more fiction in autobiography than there is autobiography in fiction.
While at the BlogWorld Expo in Las Vegas next week, I’ll be signing copies of my autobiography I’ll Do It Myself in which I intimately share living with cerebral palsy to show others that cp is not a death sentence, but rather a life sentence: Do It Myself Blog – Glenda Watson Hyatt » 2007 » November
It is not everyday that you find an autobiography so disarmingly direct and candid.
Along the way he offers a sort of autobiography of his bibliomania, which takes him across New England and the rest of the country searching for old books.
There are elements of autobiography in these acute, erudite, elegant and amusing essays. Times, Sunday Times
Matilda of Canossa had obsessed Maureen for the better part of the last two years, possessing her first when Maureen read the autobiography of the controversial countess, and then as she wrote her latest book in honor of this remarkable woman. The Poet Prince
Jack . Welch Autobiography & gt ; praised as " the Holy Bible of CEO ".
And he found time to write two volumes of autobiography in which he could give full vent to his views on theatre. Times, Sunday Times
While going through such varied sources, it is a great joy when one finds an autobiography or a biography or an unpublished piece of writing.
She wrote in her autobiography that The Manchurian Candidate was ‘a dynamite film,’ though she had worried about working with Frank Sinatra.
Autobiography used to be the preserve of hammy actors, gammy lieutenant commanders and superannuated hangers-on to the Bloomsbury Group.
It is a famously unclassifiable book, part cultural criticism, part autobiography, mixing participant ethnography with literary analysis. The Times Literary Supplement
In her autobiography she said curiosity had made her take the job, but 60 years on she admits she failed to let herself see the atrociousness of the regime she worked for.
I thought, 'Doing this autobiography is more serious than I thought. With No Ax to Grind
Beyond the headlines inspired by his recent autobiography, it is easy to recognise just how the modern game has transformed his life. Times, Sunday Times
These texts, written in the style of 1980s bonkbuster novels but with the content of newsy autobiography, could change the face of publishing. Bonk-bios, the perfect beach books
A ghosted autobiography requires a deep bond between sportsman and journalist. Times, Sunday Times
As well as being erudite, witty and utterly shameless, his autobiography shows he was capable of great mercy. Times, Sunday Times
These and other insights into a distinguished writer 's life are reason enough to read this chronological autobiography. Times, Sunday Times
George is the survivor, the cat with nine lives, and he has an autobiography for every one of them.
He re-read his father's autobiography and realised they shared many character traits.
This autobiography will appeal most to those interested in the history of the Chattahoochee Valley.
In four volumes of autobiography and three books of journals he distilled much of the flavour of each decade of a remarkable century.
Certainly this critique of autobiography has validity; how many autobiographers are truly honest even with themselves, let alone with their readers, about themselves in narrative?
After Lacroix, Man Ray spent about six years with the famed Parisian demi-mondaine Kiki de Montparnasse, to whom he devoted an entire chapter in his autobiography.
And he found time to write two volumes of autobiography in which he could give full vent to his views on theatre. Times, Sunday Times
As he wrote in his autobiography: 'I serve as a blank screen on which people of vastly different political stripes project their own views. Times, Sunday Times
Still, autobiography may be the land of the invented past but, when the person is interesting enough and the life is large enough, the compensations are considerable.
There is a story told in his otherwise unrevealing autobiography which nicely illuminates the practical side of this pursuit of goodness.
Known as a master of tokiwazu bushi, a Japanese song featured in Kabuki plays, she published her autobiography two years ago. Autopsy Disclosed
He said he'd been working hard recently on his autobiography, which was now half finished.
In his autobiography, he explains in detail why it did not become a worldwide business.
In his Autobiography he reports a personal experience of racial harassment.
In his autobiography, King mentioned that when he "chivved" someone (interesting that the slang hasn't changed), he was always careful to draw the blade downwards across the face, never upwards or sideways, so as not to slash a major artery. A Night With Annie Nightingale; Mary Anne's Send Off Show; Bandits of the Blitz; Jamie Cullum
He was reading the Russell autobiography in order to steady himself for the selection procedure.
Burderop farmer Charles W Whatley recalls his schooldays at Swindon High School in his autobiography Farming And Foxhunting published c1940, where Mr Snell had the reputation of pushing on the smart and forward boys. Undefined
I was intrigued to read in your autobiography that your relationship with your parents was starchy and formal, while you were close to your grandmother.
Tebow's autobiography, audaciously written when he was merely a 23-year-old second-string quarterback most critics called a miscast running back, came out in June. USATODAY.com News
In her autobiography, she describes the song's genesis late one night in a Dublin bar.
Rowlandson intersperses her autobiography with numerous quotations from the Bible.
For now Ricky is busy attending book signings around the country to promote his autobiography Ricky.
As it cools, write another autobiography. The Sun
His autobiography is set to become a massive hit - but it seems not even the England captain can topple Harry Potter from top spot.
Further, Langdon deems the sculpture — which depicts St. Teresa of Avila in spiritual ecstasy, based on a description in her autobiography — as pornographic, as it supposedly depicts the saint “on her back in the throes of a toe-curling orgasm.” Ron Howard, Angry & Demeaning?
While trying to help starving villagers, Yunus met a 21-year-old woman named Sufia Begum, who was burdened by a tiny yet crushing debt, Yunus recalled in his autobiography, "Banker to the Poor.
I, Dreyfus takes the form of its eponymous hero's autobiography, penned while in prison.
IT was supposed to be his grand comeback - a new album and autobiography out on consecutive days after months of hard work. The Sun
In his autobiography, My Life, he tells of his lifelong passion for golf both as a player and a commentator.
As well as being erudite, witty and utterly shameless, his autobiography shows he was capable of great mercy. Times, Sunday Times
It went right across the board - from literary fiction to celebrity autobiography.
Moceanu has written an autobiography, had book signings and cashed in on corporate and commercial appearances.
Note the dramatic narrative and implicit autobiography that emerge from this penetrating insight.
According to Evans's autobiography, Mascarenhas told him that the army's outrages against Bengalis far outweighed those of Bengalis against non-Bengalis. It's not the arithmetic of genocide that's important. It's that we pay attention | Ian Jack
In this untypical but engaging sports autobiography, he portrays himself as a man of destiny, overcoming all obstacles in the way of England's Rugby World Cup victory.
Ireland, in short, has no monopoly on the use of memoir, fiction, biography or autobiography as a political tool.
Government lawyers have been encouraged by a 1997 Appeal Court judgment preventing the spy George Blake from receiving royalties on his autobiography.
The details, he says, are pretty much straight autobiography, the sentiments also.
In his autobiography Russell reports this sad interlude with agonized regret.
Esposito's book is part autobiography, part travel story, part food diary, and part oenological tale. The Wine Book Club Wrap-Up for May
If he was the quintessential Parisian (in his autobiography, he describes himself as “a Parisian from the heart of Paris”), she was the fiercely ambitious arriviste. The King Is Dead
One wishes one of her many friends and admirers had advised her not to make her autobiography sound like a list of testimonials from famous people interspersed with anecdotes.
I told him time after time to write his autobiography. Times, Sunday Times
The film is not quite a confessional cry for help, but on some level it functions as scrambled autobiography.
As hard as it can be to truly open up and mine the meaning of one's existence, and then stake that meaning out for public display, this is what it means to write a worthwhile autobiography.
The book is not so much a formal ‘autobiography’ as a free-floating memoir.
In his autobiography, he recalls the poverty he grew up in.
If an autobiography is the true and full story of one's life -- the entire trip so to speak -- a memoir examines recurring scenes along the way. Will Weaver: Making Sense of the Memoir
As is so often the way with writers, paradox seemed not to detract from but strengthen his work, as this collection of novel extracts, short stories, travel writing and autobiography proves.
The rugby union star has vowed to address all the claims surrounding his personal life in his autobiography, due out in September. The Sun
Because people have ripped her off and sold kiss-and-tell stories (which, presumably, her autobiography is not).
This image of a monastic, reclusive author, wilfully at odds with much of modernity, was confirmed by the posthumous appearance of Brown's autobiography.
“I sent him another challenge, and another and another,” he wrote in his autobiography, “and the more he did not want to fight, the bloodthirstier I became.” LIGHTING OUT FOR THE TERRITORY
Her autobiography refuses to give the reader anything more than a blandly introspective narrative.
This book clearly falls into the category of fictionalised autobiography.
Autobiography prevails over shop talk, and every voice flickers with creative passion.
There is an unusual emphasis on ghosts in herautobiography.
He specializes in American literature, African-American culture from 1940 to 1960, Afro-American autobiography, nonfiction prose, and popular culture.
In sharp contrast to the autobiography, it tends to be prolix and muddled with excessive detail, and it often reads like a jumbled mix of fantastic stories.
A man's face is his autobiography. A woman's face is her work of fiction. Oscar Wilde
Surely knowing that he was writing his own epitaph, Frank, who lived in Piccadilly Village, last year published a candid autobiography, I Am What I Am.
A pastiche of autobiography and post-modern plot twists, it was haunted by an off-putting tone of smug precociousness.
VIctoria Beckham, in her autobiography Learning to Fly, talks about how legendary corsetier Mr. Pearl made hers for her wedding dress. Ava and Lana BFF - A Dress A Day
The cover for a bestselling autobiography, or what? Times, Sunday Times
It is a unique record that pushes at the boundaries of autobiography and fiction.
If we accept the testimony of his Autobiography, his attention was mainly turned to religion and to chemical and cabbalistical studies; from his correspondence, on the other hand, it would appear that his thoughts at least occasionally ran on subjects that had little to do with his spiritual welfare. The Youth of Goethe
According to his online autobiography, Mr. Unger recently retired from the practice of cosmetic dentistry and decided to devote his life to painting in oil, acrylic and watercolor, which he called his “passion and first love.” St. Paul’s Hosts Art Show & Sale « Beachwood Historical Alliance
Fry said in a "valediction" on his website www. stephenfry.com that he intends to disconnect himself from his multimedia chatter on Twitter, blogs and websites to write a follow-up to his autobiography "Moab Is My Washpot. Reuters: Top News
If all fiction is autobiography, then we must suggest that perhaps all autobiography is fiction.
The novel is a thinly disguised autobiography.
Broyard wrote this before the boom in what Joyce Carol Oates has called “pathography,” or biography and autobiography that focus on the sordid. 2007 January « One-Minute Book Reviews
The autobiography covers the author's early years up to the threshold of university.
I expect his forthcoming autobiography will have the same effect. Times, Sunday Times
Very few guessed just how complex until he published the first volume of his autobiography. Times, Sunday Times
Moore has just finished his autobiography, One Voice - My Life in Song, a funny, moving and searingly honest book, as you would expect from an unblinking chronicler of Irish ways and Irish laws.
Excerpted and condensed from Glenda’s recently released autobiography ‘I’ll Do It Myself’, in which she intimately shares her life story to show others cerebral palsy is not a death sentence, but rather a life sentence. Do It Myself Blog – Glenda Watson Hyatt » 2007 » April
KING: He wrote in his autobiography ten years ago he started dating you to escape cocaine which he described as comparable to jumping in a lake to avoid getting wet. CNN Transcript Mar 23, 2004
After all, in her 1993 autobiography she disclosed one or two juicier titbits contained in the files, which she was allowed to see soon after the Wall came down.
A New Yorker cartoon reprinted in Lee's autobiography epitomizes her appeal: A pot-bellied, bald man shaving at the bathroom sink glances at his wife, who is speaking to him from behind a shower curtain. More Than a Girl With a Gimmick
In this semi-autobiography, Simon experiences the remoteness and instability of growing up on a reservation.
This book clearly falls into the category of fictionalised autobiography.
What gives to this autobiography its particular value is its inversion of insider-outsider positions.
Political anoraks who want to get ahead of the game should read Winning Back America, the former Vermont governor's recently published campaign autobiography.
This wit, who has bequeathed to us no wit; this man of genius, who has formed no work of genius; this bold advocate for popular freedom, who sunk his patriotism in the chamberlainship; was indeed desirous of leaving behind him some trace of the life of an _escroc_ in a piece of autobiography, which, for the benefit of the world, has been thrown to the flames. Literary Character of Men of Genius Drawn from Their Own Feelings and Confessions
He went so far as to write his autobiography in the third person and in Welsh - a language few of his admirers could read.
And he found time to write two volumes of autobiography in which he could give full vent to his views on theatre. Times, Sunday Times
It was in the only way--I give most all of the credit to (Bhutto producer) Mark Siegel (who coauthored Bhutto's autobiography Daughter of Destiny), who is a colleague and the person who made the family connection possible and available to me. Dan Lybarger: A Complicated Legacy: Duane Baughman on Bhutto
In business matters, like who was going to ghost Jett's autobiography, Kevin's word was obviously law. DEAD BEAT
She would later write in her autobiography that she "used to try more and more cunningly to hide my feelings."
The past six months had been spent ghostwriting the autobiography of a twenty-five-year-old pop star. LOST SUMMER
Just here I rise to remark: For effective purposes one must not be unduly sensitive or overmodest in writing autobiography -- for, being the events and memoirs of his life, written by himself, the ever-present pronoun "I" dances in such lively attendance and in such profusion on the pages that whatever pride he may have in the events they chronicle is somewhat abashed at its repetition. Shadow and Light An Autobiography with Reminiscences of the Last and Present Century
A vitrine contains parts of the original manuscripts for his 15,000 page novel and his 5,000-page autobiography.
(in French) by Gerard DepardieuIn his autobiography, this giant of French cinema -- who calls himself "bulimic" -- engagingly describes his 56 years of binging on food, alcohol and, above all, work. SNAP JUDGEMENT: BOOKS
I'm always reluctant to do so because I don't want this blog to turn into autobiography by other means.
The celebrity autobiography is a way of binding celebrities to their fan base. Times, Sunday Times
Charles Darwin complained quite crossly in his autobiography that, despite many denials, people still kept saying he thought natural selection was the sole cause of evolutionary development. A valuable onslaught on neo-Darwinist simplicities « Anglican Samizdat
He was reading the Russell autobiography in order to steady himself for the selection procedure.
In this autobiography, Manning portrays himself as a humble but highly intellectual and sage man who is driven by a love of country and his Christian faith.
This is autobiography, and since when have we been worried about autobiography being indulgent?
(The sentence, "Following in the footsteps of Miley Cyrus, he just came out with an autobiography," is one of the predicted thirty-six pop culture signs of the Apocalypse.) Welcome back, Chilean miners!
Her autobiography, The Kindness of Strangers, published last year, is exceedingly short on personal detail.
I cannot forbear observing the philosophical significance of the fact that Autobiography fails to include a photograph of LeWitt himself.
Putting it more starkly, he was a mythomaniac, but the autobiography itself, "Each Man in His Time" 1974, is among the most entertaining books about Hollywood ever written. We Shall Not See His Like Again
While exploring ideas of anxiety, autobiography, and taxonomy, Amundson and Gour's work goes beyond posing the question of why people collect, and seeks to understand how people delineate their existence through the amassment of things.
Will my words find their way into some new tell-all autobiography? Times, Sunday Times
In her autobiography she often refers to her unhappy schooldays.
Adrian Glew, who works on the Tate collection's archives in London, was studying the seven-volume handwritten autobiography of 19th-century British sculptor Henry Sibson when he came across a reference to a Frenchman whose nickname was "le bossu," or hunchback. The Globe and Mail - Home RSS feed
The stories about Dan are legion, and don't bear repetition here - although his autobiography is highly recommended.
Agent, asking for me, somebody, anybody to ghost write an autobiography for Alex Higgins.
And the Bill Clinton autobiography hits stores this week.
To write a biography of another can involve one in autobiography.
Thanks largely to shameless self-promotion in his autobiography, a vivid and amusing account written in the vernacular, he is one of the best documented and most widely reputed Mannerist artists after Michelangelo.
He also gets £50 and a personally inscribed copy of my autobiography.
Finally, by facilitating self-discovery and personal growth, autobiography has therapeutic power.
She is in talks for a 5million fee to write her autobiography, something she always said she would only do at the end of her career. The Sun
He penetrates deeper into the artist's life in the second volume of his autobiography.
The autobiography accompanying the new album appears to be redundant. Times, Sunday Times
Both texts direct the reader to attend to the saving and comforting power of God; both also provide ostensive biblical legitimization for Equiano's autobiography.
In her autobiography she occasionally refers to her unhappy schooldays.
Although he claims that his films should not be read as autobiography, he is a past master at transforming his life into art.
Also, where is his autobiography, supposedly finished over a year ago?
Some feminists turned towards poetry, fiction and autobiography. The Past is Before Us - feminism in action since the 1960s
A fresh surprise is sprung by this long-awaited autobiography, which turns out not to be an autobiography at all. Times, Sunday Times
Autobiography used to be the preserve of hammy actors, gammy lieutenant commanders and superannuated hangers-on to the Bloomsbury Group.
The Book of Margery Kempe, the spiritual autobiography of the wife of a Lynn burgess, exemplified the virtues which lay men and women sought, and the revelations, visions, and ecstasies by which they came to possess them.
On a related note has any one read his autobiography?
His autobiography (ghost-written, like all the publications that came out under his name) was serialized in magazines and on radio, bought by a major book club, and reprinted a number of times.
Oskar has convinced Bruno to buy him a ream of blank white paper (Oskar terms it ‘virgin’ paper) so that he can write out his autobiography.
This would lead one to expect a fat, dense and detailed autobiography. The reverse is true. The book is short and spare.
Autobiography and biography have provided more intimate insights into the lives of homosexual men.
In a more recent portion of his autobiography, Rexroth reports that he and his first wife, Andree, also a painter, carried on correspondence with Theo van Doesberg, Moholy-Nagy, and other European post-Cubist abstractionists.
As the two parts of the title imply, it contrasts the recent Axelrodian hagiography of Obama as the biracial transcender with the man's own evasively written but ultimately quite clear autobiography. Steve Sailer's iSteve Blog
In his autobiography he points to influences from punk, reggae, rock and pop with hip-hop, which really gave him his sense of direction.
Some feminists turned towards poetry, fiction and autobiography. The Past is Before Us - feminism in action since the 1960s
This autobiography is the unrepentant rant of a violent sex offender, Nathan McCall, who participated in gang rape and violent assaults and shows no remorse but instead pride. Thirteen (!) School Board Applicants at cvillenews.com
A film based on his autobiography, Hooleygan: Music, Mayhem, Good Vibrations - described as "anarchic, dishevelled and hugely entertaining" - is scheduled to begin production later this year. The Independent - Frontpage RSS Feed
She has written her autobiography, Memoirs Of An Unfit Mother, which unpicks her marriage.
The Improvisatore," upon which, next to "The Wonder-Tales," his fame rests, is a kind of disguised autobiography which exhibits the author's morbid sensibility and what I should call the unmasculine character of his mind, [19] To appeal to the reader's pity in your hero's behalf is a daring experiment, and it cannot, except in brief scenes, be successful. Essays on Scandinavian Literature
And I thought you might enjoy hearing one of the toughest ones I had, which was a very earnest fourth-grader that wanted an autobiography of a caveman. Librarian Kee Malesky Considers 'All Facts' For NPR
They put his photograph on the dust jacket of his autobiography.
His autobiography provides an illuminating insight into his mind.
According to his autobiography (Hoxsey, 1956, 62-64), it was his great-grandfather, a horse breeder named John Hoxsey, who developed it at mid-nineteenth century, out of grasses and flowering wild plants which John took from the pasture where a favorite stallion, afflicted with a cancerous growth, grazed daily until the growth necrotized. Ron Paul Wins! | Campaign for Liberty at the Daily Paul - Blog
It is in that episode that the larger implications of Schreiner's intricate weave of fiction and autobiography become apparent.
To write a biography of another can involve one in autobiography.
This year, a century after Mark Twain's death in 1910, the University of California Press is posthumously publishing "The Autobiography of Mark Twain," a three-volume 'unexpurgated' collection that promises never-before-seen glimpses into a man who continues to defy hard-lined definitions. Apartment Therapy Main
It is part autobiography, part history, part psychological investigation of the Scottish character.
I've tried to keep this ‘autobiography’ as brief as possible but I can't ensure you a weariless reading.
Since starting the whirlwind publicity tour to promote his autobiography, he has done his best to seem high-minded.
She wrote her autobiography, besides authoring books on the status of women, handicrafts and embroidery.
The relation between autobiography and your writing is a complicated one.
In his autobiography, "Tales Out of School," he described the central board of education as a "nettlesome" body whose "time-wasting intrusions and demands" made his job impossible. Who Would Want This Job?
He has also just signed a megabucks deal to write his autobiography. The Sun
Deanna Favre, who alluded to her husband's infidelity in her 2007 autobiography, is promoting a new book and was asked about the allegations on "Good Morning America" Thursday. This just in...: Harvard Club says "No thanks" to Eliot Spitzer; Deanna Favre breaks silence on sexting-scandal
Her autobiography opens with an epigraph by Virginia Woolf that firmly sets this metanarrative within a matriarchal tradition of storytelling.
He was one of the most best-natured and cheerfullest persons I have in my time met with," writes his pious daughter-in-law (_Autobiography of Lady Warwick_, ed. Croker, p. 27). Characters from 17th Century Histories and Chronicles
It's something else - a hybrid text - combining elements of fiction, autobiography, philosophy, poetry and prose.
In an autobiography, I will have to write the truth, I should not hide anything. Just to avoid people’s feelings, I should not be hiding things. If I don’t present events as they happened, truthfully, it is not an autobiography at all. I have read Mahatma Gandhi’s autobiography and if I can muster up the kind of courage that he had, I will write one. Rajinikanth
They're my particular way of writing my autobiography, the fragments of my day which make up an impression of my state of mind in a particular place.
Honesty, Amos says, is one of the advantages of committing her autobiography to CD rather than to paper.
Nobody writes an autobiography saying I was a loser, a failure and a fool.
Lee Iaccoco's Autobiography was acknowledged to be number one on the best - seller list of 1985.
In her autobiography she occasionally refers to her unhappy schooldays.
This is really an autobiography as much as a book about heroines. Times, Sunday Times
It was published in 1937 so is probably unobtainable now (though you could try abebooks), but it was a marvellous autobiography by a man who edited pulp magazines.
The translation represents Dante's autobiography as a prolepsis of the culminant visions in the Paradiso.
In "Vivre Dans le Feu: Confessions" Éditions Robert Laffont, or "Living in Fire: Confessions," Mr. Todorov has organized extracts from nine volumes of her letters, notes and diaries into what he calls the autobiography she never wrote. Languagehat.com: TWO FROM THE TIMES.
Government lawyers have been encouraged by a 1997 Appeal Court judgment preventing the spy George Blake from receiving royalties on his autobiography.
Agent, asking for me, somebody, anybody to ghost write an autobiography for Alex Higgins.
Let's just say that by 30, I want to have had an international best-selling autobiography.

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