as in memoir
a history of a person's life
an unauthorized biography of the actor gave him some serious headaches
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At the tail end of Tina Knowles’ sweeping, vulnerable memoir Matriarch is her biography, as is custom.
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Rachel Burchfield, Forbes.com, 22 Apr. 2025
In the available biographies, histories, and news reports, Cargill is typically framed as something like a complement to Rhoney: a lab-assistant/girlfriend.
—John Semley, Rolling Stone, 19 Apr. 2025
With the biography developed from journal entries on what she’s learned over the years, from lessons to rewards, each chapter ends with a reflection point for the reader to learn from.
—India Espy-Jones, Essence, 18 Apr. 2025
The purge includes webpages, photos, videos and biographies, many of which celebrated historic firsts for women in military aviation.
—Thomas G. Moukawsher, MSNBC Newsweek, 17 Apr. 2025
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Rachel Burchfield, Forbes.com, 22 Apr. 2025
In the available biographies, histories, and news reports, Cargill is typically framed as something like a complement to Rhoney: a lab-assistant/girlfriend.
—John Semley, Rolling Stone, 19 Apr. 2025
With the biography developed from journal entries on what she’s learned over the years, from lessons to rewards, each chapter ends with a reflection point for the reader to learn from.
—India Espy-Jones, Essence, 18 Apr. 2025
The purge includes webpages, photos, videos and biographies, many of which celebrated historic firsts for women in military aviation.
—Thomas G. Moukawsher, MSNBC Newsweek, 17 Apr. 2025
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Based on Robert Evans’ 1994 memoir and narrated by the man himself, the film tells of the last, so far, of the old school, hands-on Hollywood producers, who oversaw the second golden age of Paramount Pictures from 1967 and 1974.—
Thomas Doherty,
HollywoodReporter,
20 Apr. 2025
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In his memoir Source Code, Bill Gates explains a great deal about his early years.—
Jonathan Wai,
Forbes.com,
17 Apr. 2025
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In 1999, she was inducted into the Country Gospel Music Hall of Fame, and her autobiography, This is My Story; This Is My Song, was published in 2019.—
Mike Barnes,
HollywoodReporter,
24 Apr. 2025
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Publisher Penguin Random House says Hope is the first autobiography published by a pope, and was initially intended to appear only after Francis' death.—
Rachel Treisman,
NPR,
21 Apr. 2025
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“Biography.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/biography. Accessed 2 May. 2025.
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