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An autobiography (from Greek auto- ["self" or "without external prompting"] + bÃos ["life"] + gráphÅ� ["write"]) is a biography written by its subject. That is to say, the author writes about, and often dramatizes, their own life. The concept is at most Older Than Feudalism, but the term wasn't coined until 1797 by English scholar William Taylor—though he called it "pedantic". A memoir is a type of autobiography where rather than going through the author's entire life, it takes a more personal and emotional approach to a specific point in their life. The two terms are often used interchangeably. Sub-Trope of Biography. Almost always written in First Person Narration. For purported autobiographical works which are later revealed to be fabricated, see Based on a Great Big Lie. Please note that this page is only for true, nonfictional autobiographies. It's not for semi-autobiographical works that are inspired by the author's life but still ultimately fictional (e.g. The Fabelmans). Please also note that while some autobiographies change a few things for the sake of telling a story, others are so accurate that they can't even have pages without violating our Real Life Troping policies. |
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Maus is mainly a biography about Art Spiegelman's father Vladek, a Polish Jew and Holocaust survivor, but a good portion of it is dedicated to Art himself interviewing Vladek to get inspiration for the comic he's making. | |
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If This Is a Man by Primo Levi is about the time he spent in Auschwitz-Buna. | |
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Ozzy Osbourne's memoir I Am Ozzy chronicles his storied career as a heavy metal vocalist, sprinkled with humorous anecdotes prior to, during, and after his career in Black Sabbath. | |
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Weird: The Al Yankovic Story was co-written by "Weird Al" Yankovic himself, detailing his life and career while also parodying the trend of musician biopics of the time. Almost none of it is accurate to real life—Al wasn't in a relationship with Madonna, for one, and he definitely didn't die, either. | |
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Moab Is My Washpot is a memoir by Stephen Fry about the first twenty years of his life, focussing in particular on his time at boarding school as a teenager. | |
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I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings has Maya Angelou write of her own childhood experiences and trauma. | |
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The Disaster Artist was written by Greg Sestero about his experiences as an actor in the notoriously terrible movie The Room. | |
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Confessions, the first known autobiography, details the events from Augustine's birth (he had to extrapolate what that was like from other infants) to his ultimate conversion to Christianity in his mid-thirties. | |
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The Early Asimov: This Anthology is an autobiographical account of Dr Asimov's first eleven years of professional publication. It's the second biographical account he wrote, and he focused on his interactions with the great editor John W. Campbell. | |
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Persepolis tells the history of Marjane Satrapi from her childhood during the fall of the Shah to her exile away from the Islamic Republic of Iran. | |
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Be Prepared details author Vera Brosgol's mostly miserable time at an all-Russian summer camp. | |
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Smile is about the time she lost her two front teeth and the years-long aftermath. | |
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Rocketman (2019) is a musical retelling of Elton John's rise, fall, and rehab. While John didn't write the movie, he was an executive producernote with his husband David Furnish being a regular producer and called most of the shots. | |
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El Deafo, aside from depicting humans as rabbits, is a mostly faithful account of author Cece Bell's early life after losing most of her hearing from meningitis. | |
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American Splendor is a series of comics written by Cleveland native Harvey Pekar about the day-to-day events in his life. | |
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The Brittas Empire: In-Universe, Brittas wrote an autobiography about his own life, I Believe, during the period between series 4 and 5, with proceedings from the book going to charity. We don't get to hear too much about it, but he wrote a lot about his Deputy Manager Laura, which he has been implied to have started falling in love with in the episodes prior. His pool assistant Tim on the other hand gets one throwaway mention in the entire book. | |
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Everything I Know About Love by journalist Dolly Alderton is about the author's teen years in suburban North London, university days in Exeter and years spent housesharing with her friends in Camden. | |
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The Pianist from Syria - A Memoir: An autobiography of Palestinian-Syrian refugee and YouTube star Aeham Ahmad. | |
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Sisters is about her rocky relationship with her sister Amara and how it culminated during a road trip. | |
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The Arab Of The Future by Riad Sattouf is about his life growing up in Libya and Syria, being raised by a Syrian father and a French mother. | |
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Where Am I Now? True Stories of Girlhood and Accidental Fame is an autobiography by Mara Wilson about her life as a child star and eventual fallout from Hollywood. | |
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The Book of Pooh: An In-Universe example in "Tigger's Autobiography". After listening to Owl's reading of The Life of Hoot Johnson, a biography about Hoot Johnson, Tigger is inspired to find someone to write his biography. He tries to get Rabbit, Piglet, and Pooh to write about his first day in the Hundred Acre Wood, but each of them puts in things he doesn't remember and leaves out what he does. After Tigger feels discouraged, Pooh tells him that maybe he can write his own biography, as Owl told him that a biography written about a person by that same person is called an autobiography. This inspires Tigger to write his autobiography—which ends up only being a few sentences long. | |
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Guts is about a long-lasting stomach flu and how it contributed to her anxieties. | |
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Fun Home by Alison Bechdel goes into her early life, particularly discovering her sexuality and her relationship with her father. | |
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The Bolt Chronicles: An In-Universe example. In "The Autobiography," Bolt attempts to memorialize his life story in response to the many unflattering fanfics written about him. When he tries to talk it into the computer using a speech program, it comes out as barking. | |
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Gender Queer: A Memoir is an autobiographical Coming of Age Story revolving around artist Maia Kobabe's gender identity. | |
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The Fire Never Goes Out is a collection of autobiographical comics by ND Stevenson detailing his time in art school, publishing NIMONA, and mental illness, among other things. | |
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Always with Honor is the autobiography of General Pyotr Wrangel, leader of the White Army during the Russian Civil War. The book chronicles his rise from cavalry officer, to general, to Supreme Commander of the White forces. | |
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