An autobiographical narrative recounts an event that occurred in the author's life. Muxakara and 8 other people found this answer useful. Autobiographies are written by individuals who have experienced something interesting or important happening in their lives. This can be true events or things that happened to the author while they were growing up. Some examples are David Copperfield's autobiography which tells about his life as a child magician until he was put into prison for fraud, and Charles Dickens' novel A Christmas Carol which tells about three different ghosts that visit Ebenezer Scrooge during Christmas time. In literature, the term "autobiography" is used to describe any work which is based on the writer's own experiences. It may be a full-length book or just a section of a larger work. For example, Thomas Hardy's short story "A Quiet Evening" is an autobiographical narrative because it tells us about a young man who grows up in late 19th century England and France and has a romance with a beautiful woman. This story could be considered part of Hardy's larger work The Mayor of Casterbridge which tell us about another young man who grows up in early 20th century England and has a romance with a beautiful woman too.