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. ...more

Most Read This Week Tagged "Autobiography"

This American Woman: A One-in-a-Billion Memoir

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Beyond the Wand: The Magic & Mayhem of Growing Up a Wizard

How to Lose Your Mother: A Daughter's Memoir

All the Beauty in the World: The Metropolitan Museum of Art and Me

Mailman: My Wild Ride Delivering the Mail in Appalachia and Finally Finding Home

What I Ate in One Year (And Related Thoughts)

Actress of a Certain Age: My Twenty-Year Trail to Overnight Success

Code Name: Pale Horse—How I Went Undercover to Expose America's Nazis

Raised by a Serial Killer: Discovering the Truth About My Father

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

Loud: Accept Nothing Less Than the Life You Deserve

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

Food for Thought: Essays and Ruminations

What the Dead Know: Learning About Life as a New York City Death Investigator

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

The Eyes of Gaza: The powerful, must-read diary of life in Palestine

A Physical Education: How I Escaped Diet Culture and Gained the Power of Lifting

My Life in Full: Work, Family, and Our Future

La prochaine fois que tu mordras la poussière

Briefly Perfectly Human: Making an Authentic Life by Getting Real About the End

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

Reality Check: Making the Best of The Situation - How I Overcame Addiction, Loss, and Prison

No Cure for Being Human: And Other Truths I Need to Hear

Imminent: Inside the Pentagon's Hunt for UFOs

Grimoire Girl: A Memoir of Magic and Mischief

Your Table Is Ready: Tales of a New York City Maître D'

It. Goes. So. Fast.: The Year of No Do-Overs

The True Happiness Company: How a Girl Like Me Falls for a Cult Like That

Good Soil: The Education of an Accidental Farmhand

All the Worst Humans: How I Made News for Dictators, Tycoons, and Politicians

Master of Me: The Secret to Controlling Your Narrative

Madly, Deeply: The Diaries of Alan Rickman

This Far: My Story of Love, Loss, and Embracing the Light

That Librarian: The Fight Against Book Banning in America

Something Lost, Something Gained: Reflections on Life, Love, and Liberty

The 10: A Memoir of Family and the Open Road

I Heard Her Call My Name: A Memoir of Transition

The Survivor: How I Survived Six Concentration Camps and Became a Nazi Hunter

How to Share an Egg: A True Story of Hunger, Love, and Plenty

Every Man for Himself and God Against All: A Memoir

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“ Thanksgiving is no time for amateur hour in the kitchen, but we were subjected to this Gong Show on a yearly basis. Aunt Kathy went knee deep in her preparations where others would have surrendered. ”
― Harold Phifer, Surviving Chaos: How I Found Peace at A Beach Bar

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“ It seemed I'd always been chasing after something, anything that moved -a car, a bird, a blowing leaf -anything that might lead me into some more lit place, some unknown land downriver. I had not even the vaguest notion of the broken world I was living in, what society could do with you. ...more ”
― Bob Dylan, Chronicles, Volume One

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