Autobiography | Wikipedia audio article
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Date: 2019-01-17

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00:01:35 1 Biography
00:01:44 1.1 Life
00:02:16 1.2 Spiritual autobiography
00:03:04 1.3 Memoirs
00:04:39 1.4 Fictional autobiography
00:05:41 2 Autobiography through the ages
00:05:52 2.1 The classical period: Apologia, oration, confession
00:08:11 2.2 Early autobiographies
00:11:12 2.3 18th and 19th centuries
00:12:53 2.4 20th and 21st centuries
00:15:21 3 See also



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An autobiography (from the Greek, αὐτός-autos self +  βίος-bios life + γράφειν-graphein to write) is a self-written account of the life of oneself. The word "autobiography" was first used deprecatingly by William Taylor in 1797 in the English periodical The Monthly Review, when he suggested the word as a hybrid, but condemned it as "pedantic". However, its next recorded use was in its present sense, by Robert Southey in 1809. Despite only being named early in the nineteenth century, first-person autobiographical writing originates in antiquity. Roy Pascal differentiates autobiography from the periodic self-reflective mode of journal or diary writing by noting that "[autobiography] is a review of a life from a particular moment in time, while the diary, however reflective it may be, moves through a series of moments in time". Autobiography thus takes stock of the autobiographer's life from the moment of composition. While biographers generally rely on a wide variety of documents and viewpoints, autobiography may be based entirely on the writer's memory. The memoir form is closely associated with autobiography but it tends, as Pascal claims, to focus less on the self and more on others during the autobiographer's review of his or her life.See also: List of autobiographies and Category:Autobiographies for examples.