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- noun Plural form of
autobiographer .
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Examples
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Maybe some of those "autobiographers" should try it!
Will wonders never cease ... Frank Wilson 2006
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Consider this: Black autobiographers Malcolm X, Chester Himes, Nathan McCall and Dwayne Betts all seem to qualify for Robinson's Mainstream, yet all served prison time for armed robbery between 1929 and 2005.
Book Review: Eugene Robinson's 'Disintegration: The Splintering of Black America' Lawrence Jackson 2010
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Consider this: Black autobiographers Malcolm X, Chester Himes, Nathan McCall and Dwayne Betts all seem to qualify for Robinson's Mainstream, yet all served prison time for armed robbery between 1929 and 2005.
Has success torn apart the black community? Lawrence Jackson 2010
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Consider this: Black autobiographers Malcolm X, Chester Himes, Nathan McCall and Dwayne Betts all seem to qualify for Robinson's Mainstream, yet all served prison time for armed robbery between 1929 and 2005.
Book Review: Eugene Robinson's 'Disintegration: The Splintering of Black America' Lawrence Jackson 2010
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Usually the biographer serves as a kind of check on a subject like Feynman, who, it is presumed, mythologized himself as most autobiographers do.
A Curious Mind Carl Rollyson 2011
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Grant: A failed businessman, a great general, a mostly lousy president, and, at the end of it all, one of the finest American autobiographers.
An Amazon.com Books Blog featuring news, reviews, interviews and guest author blogs. 2008
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In the same way that Rebekah Kohut invokes such biblical “foremothers” as Sarah and Deborah, and writer Annie Nathan Meyer invokes the inspiration of her poet relative Emma Lazarus, contemporary autobiographers celebrate and/or debate the achievements of their predecessor autobiographers.
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Like many other immigrant autobiographers, Antin represents her immigrant experience in lofty, quasi-biblical terms as an exodus from the bondage of Eastern Europe to the promised land of America.
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Some of these immigrant women autobiographers chose to tell of this journey in their mother tongue of Yiddish.
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These guys are storytellers, not autobiographers, but what these songs lack in personal drama they make up for in theatricality.
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