autobiography

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Recent Examples of autobiography Given Hunter had revealed in his autobiography that his annual salary was £12,500, this was enormous money. Michael Walker, New York Times, 9 May 2025 In recent decades, as food has claimed pop-culture status, culinary autobiography has become a familiar genre. Molly Fischer, New Yorker, 5 May 2025 Michael Jackson doted over what a dedicated mother Katherine is in his 1988 autobiography Moonwalk. Elizabeth Ayoola, Essence, 5 May 2025 Adams estimated in her 1989 autobiography, One Woman's Army: A Black Officer Remembers the WAC, that the unit averaged 65,000 pieces of mail per shift. Rachel Treisman, NPR, 29 Apr. 2025 See All Example Sentences for autobiography
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biography
Noun
  • His biography claims that Loyd also served in the U.S. Navy, on a tour during the Vietnam War.
    Wyles Daniel, USA Today, 4 June 2025
  • According to Shawn Levy’s 1996 biography of the comedian, publicist Joan O’Brien came up with the idea for the story in the early 1960s, then co-wrote a script with critic Charles Denton.
    Jennifer Zhan, Vulture, 31 May 2025

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