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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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  • To My Twin Tattooed Sons by I.M. Ant
    To My Twin Tattooed Sons: [The Edited Family Version]: Memoirs from your Dead and Long Forgotten Father
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    Availability: 100 copies available, 489 people requesting

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  • When We're Born We Forget Everything by Alicia Jo Rabins
    When We're Born We Forget Everything: A Memoir
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    From the creator of the internationally acclaimed singer-songwriter project Girls in Trouble, a memoir following her journey from a secular Jewish chi ...more
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  • Life and How to Live it by Chaz Holesworth
    Life and How to Live it: Near Wild Heaven
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    Release date: Jan 05, 2026
    At first, silence felt holy. Then the music started—and nothing was ever the same.In the gripping second volume of his memoir series, Chaz Holesworth ...more
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    3,024 books — 3,036 voters

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    4,057 books — 2,054 voters
    Please Kill Me by Legs McNeilJust Kids by Patti SmithChronicles, Volume One by Bob DylanLife by Keith RichardsOur Band Could Be Your Life by Michael Azerrad
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    Bob Dylan
    What was the future? The future was a solid wall, not promising, not threatening - all bunk. No guarantees of anything, not even the guarantee that life isn't one big joke. ...more
    Bob Dylan, Chronicles, Volume One

    Joy Harjo
    I could hear my abandoned dreams making a racket in my soul.
    Joy Harjo, Crazy Brave

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