autobiography genre
Self-told life stories
Autobiography is a literary genre in which authors tell the story of their own lives.
Unlike biography, which is written by someone else, autobiography offers firsthand perspective on personal experiences, thoughts, and development.
The genre ranges from celebrity memoirs to confessional narratives to spiritual accounts like Augustine's *Confessions*.
She's working on her autobiography.
- diaryPersonal daily record
- first-person narrationStory from speaker's viewpoint
- personal essayAutobiographical prose work
- memoirWritten personal recollection
- bookBound written work
voice · celebrity memoir · ghost writer · Bildungsroman · rags to riches · survival narrative · oral histories · identity politics · creative nonfiction · true story · introspection · coming of age · travelogue · chronology · anecdote · journal · flashback · letter
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Written life account
authorized biography · unauthorized biography · hagiography · obituary · eulogy
autobiography genrefiction
Imagined narrative work
novel · fantasy genre · literary fiction · historical fiction · short story
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News gathering and dissemination
textbook · reference work · history · technical manual · investigative reporting
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