0 a book about a person's life, written by that person: --
His life story is recounted in two fascinating volumes of autobiography.
Tony Blair's autobiography was a bestseller.
1 the story of a person’s life as written by that person, or the area of literature relating to books that describe such stories: --
Their data come from published autobiographies of highly literate immigrants that describe linguistic and psychological transformations as the immigrants adapt to new social and linguistic realities.
The work simultaneously reinforced and negated the rhetoric of resistance and revolution espoused in the first two autobiographies, dulling its own effectiveness as a tool of social reform.
In this way, of course, the reviewing of rock autobiographies resembles the reviewing of rock music.
The value of these autobiographies may, quite often, lie in what they omit to mention.
In other instances, women are portrayed in the autobiographies almost as an intrusion into the main narrative of the text.
However, a careful comparison of the two autobiographies, and of how the authors represent their teachers, can be a very instructive exercise.
All of these autobiographies have the character of survival stories.
Her evidence is drawn from a huge variety of plays, letters, prose fictions, biographies, autobiographies, and journalism.
