What's the difference between autobiographer and biography?

Autobiographer


Definition:

  • (n.) One who writers his own life or biography.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Using autobiographical data some of the intra- and inter-personal strategies for coping with the disease are outlined.
  • (2) It is the difficulty in transmitting the truth of violence.” Last year, Louis, who has been compared to the Norwegian autobiographical novelist Karl Ove Knausgaard , published his second book, Histoire de la Violence (story of violence), based on an incident when he was throttled and raped by an Algerian man he picked up in the street on Christmas Eve.
  • (3) Adult age and openness to experience were examined as predictors of autobiographical memory in a group of men and women ranging from 25 to 85 years of age.
  • (4) This study investigated the ability of right hemisphere damaged (RHD) patients to recall autobiographical material in response to emotional versus nonemotional cues.
  • (5) Two studies explored potential bases for reality monitoring (Johnson & Raye, 1981) of naturally occurring autobiographical events.
  • (6) Also, it's funny because ever since Prep [Sittenfeld's debut 2005 novel , about a teenage girl who goes to boarding school on a scholarship] came out, I think I have been mistaken for writing more autobiographically than I do.
  • (7) A biography by David Shields and Shane Salemo claims Salinger completed a string of works, including autobiographical material and stories, for which he planned a release over the coming decades.
  • (8) It’s rainy and people are saying the same things over and over again.” Unlike many other shows on the fringe, which prize storytelling above big laughs, there will be no theme to the show, no confessional narrative or autobiographical arc.
  • (9) Subjects furnished autobiographical accounts of being angered (victim narratives) and of angering someone else (perpetrator narratives).
  • (10) The article argues for an approach to autobiographical memory that takes into account sociocultural and developmental determinants of memorability as well as internal mechanisms of the cognitive system.
  • (11) Klein has now worked her serrated humor into a debut collection of autobiographical essays, titled You’ll Grow Out Of It , published in the US this week.
  • (12) It is impossible to read Heseltine's report and not be struck by the autobiographical quality of his writing.
  • (13) These results are explained within a 'descriptions' theory of autobiographical memory, and the remedial implications are discussed.
  • (14) If bookshops reserved a shelf for Autobiographical Car Crash, Getting Over the X would be a category gem, and many readers may struggle to believe that its ghost writer was not Craig Brown .
  • (15) So…" Of all Wesker's work, it is Chicken Soup with Barley that is the most autobiographical.
  • (16) He calls special attention to the interpersonal aspect and to the therapeutic function of anamnesis as well as autobiographical writing.
  • (17) "I suggest that six centuries before the first scientific report, Dante … depicted narcolepsy with cataplexy (NC) in his literary works as an autobiographical trait," writes Giuseppe Plazzi of the University of Bologna's department of biomedical and neuro-motor sciences in an article for the Sleep Medicine journal .
  • (18) It is suggested that the grandmother, having played an important role in the growth, development, and artistic flowering of the autobiographer, can become a model and source of empowerment for future generations.
  • (19) The same judges also categorized memory sources as autobiographical episodes, abstract self-references, or semantic knowledge.
  • (20) High point Writing her first novel, the semi-autobiographical Postcards From the Edge, and adapting it for the film version starring Meryl Streep as Suzanne Vale, a star fresh out of rehab.

Biography


Definition:

  • (n.) The written history of a person's life.
  • (n.) Biographical writings in general.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) In his biography, Tony Blair admits to having accumulated 70 at one point – "considered by some to be a bit of a constitutional outrage", he adds.
  • (2) Michael Holroyd, in his biography of George Bernard Shaw , gives an illuminating example of myopic hostility to Russia by the right even when we desperately needed allies.
  • (3) Tommy (1975), an engaging version of the Who's slightly dotty rock opera, was followed by two of his less successful freeform biographies, Lisztomania (1975), starring the Who's Roger Daltrey, and Valentino (1977), starring Rudolf Nureyev.
  • (4) A biography, magazine articles, and various surveys of his work convey the impression that his ideas are timely, or at least that they are historically important.
  • (5) Haki's naivety about English detective fiction is more than matched by Latimer's ingenuous excitement as Haki describes to him Dimitrios's sordid career, and he decides it would be fun to write the gangster's biography.
  • (6) "Cameron's interpretation of Merkel's stance is partially based on a misunderstanding," said Stefan Kornelius, foreign editor of Süddeutsche Zeitung and author of an authorised Merkel biography.
  • (7) His many books, which included a biography of Oliver Cromwell and a celebration of the radical millenarian groups of the period called The World Turned Upside Down, were widely read.
  • (8) A brief biography of David Edward Hughes is outlined.
  • (9) Yet the biography of this pupil and successor of Korsakov is that of a liberal, who championned the cause of human rights under the ancient regime, and in particular those of the mentally ill. His theoretical writings, published in the medico-psychological Annales in 1903-1904, are a contribution to the critique made by the French speaking school of the extended conception of dementia praecox developed by Kraepelin in 1899, and taken up by Bleuler in 1911, with his description of the group of schizophrenias.
  • (10) Another lawsuit obliged Ian Hamilton to rewrite large sections of an unauthorised biography published in 1988 – the supreme court ruled that quotations from Salinger's letters infringed his copyright.
  • (11) As any biography will also tell you, for all his shape-shifting brilliance, Bowie is a Royal Variety Performance vaudevillian at heart.
  • (12) It is a sophisticated grid, mounted upon a database that is said to have been more than two years in the development, containing biographies of individuals believed to pose a threat to US interests, and their known or suspected locations, as well as a range of options for their disposal.
  • (13) After the Scot sued Rooney over allegations in a biography the pair reconciled but whether Moyes would want him to stay at United is not yet clear, though he will have the final say on the striker's future.
  • (14) In the case of Twitter this may include who wrote the tweet, their biography, their location, when it was written, how many other tweets have been on that users account, what time it was, who it was sent to, where the author is normally based and, surprisingly in the case of Twitter , the 140 characters of the content in the tweet as well,” he said.
  • (15) For a time, he tells me, the new library operated without a biography section; crime and sci-fi disappeared, too.
  • (16) The details of her biography presented here are not as well known--especially the subsequent course of her illness and treatment and her struggle against prostitution and the white slave trade, the latter carried on with special fascination.
  • (17) I first met Boris in 1987, and a few years ago wrote an unauthorised biography of him , but no specialist knowledge is required to see that this is what he is like.
  • (18) Douglas county sheriff John Hanlin said during the press conference that officials were still working to notify victims next-of-kin and said the medical examiner’s office was expected to release their names and brief biographies Friday afternoon.
  • (19) As the key leave campaigner Boris Johnson said in his biography of Winston Churchill two years ago, the European Union, together with Nato, “has helped to deliver a period of peace and prosperity for its people as long as any since the days of the Antonine emperors”.
  • (20) He was an astonishing figure, as Tim Hilton’s magisterial 2002 biography of him proves.

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