autobiographer

Examples

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• But the autobiographer, being alive, has to choose where to end.

  Academic text (1996)

• The autobiographers based their evaluations on a number of factors.

  Academic text (1998)

• According to Lejeune, the autobiographer must value propriety.

  Academic text (1999)

• As one would expect, many autobiographers specifically mention that they were subjected to severe discipline when it came to work.

  Academic text (1995)

• Like many other autobiographers, Hallgrimur felt good about his achievements simply because he survived them.

  Academic text (1995)

• Many autobiographers describe the transformations in attitude brought on by the confirmation.

  Academic text (1995)

• Another autobiographer, Guorun Guomundsdottir (b. 1860), described the effect her brother's death had on the life of her family.

  Academic text (1995)

• The ease with which children could be separated from their parents is borne out by our autobiographers, many of whom experienced one or another of the scenarios mentioned above.

  Academic text (1995)

• My mother told me that she once sat next to Lady Diana Cooper, the grandee autobiographer, on that train, and that she introduced herself, and they had a rollicking chat.

  Academic text (2001)

• Beginning with their life map and moving on to stories about their name, their family, and their neighborhood resulted in students writing, as most autobiographers do, about pivotal moments or epiphanies in their lives that changed the way they thought or acted and caused them to analyze their actions and experiences (Bochner & Ellis, 1992).

  Academic text (2015)

Synonyms

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memoirist

vsautobiographer

2 7.3

A person who writes about their own life

is a full account of a whole life rather than selected episodes

M

memorialist

vsautobiographer

8.0

A person who writes about their own life and memories

is a full account of a whole life rather than event records

Surface Forms

Morphology

Etymology