autobiography

3 definitions • 3 examples

a book about a person's life, written by that person:

Tony Blair's autobiography was a bestseller.

the area of literature relating to such books:

His life story is recounted in two fascinating volumes of autobiography.

the story of a person’s life as written by that person, or the area of literature relating to books that describe such stories:

[ U ] The book was a mixture of family history and autobiography.