(n.) A biography written by the subject of it; memoirs of one's life written by one's self.
Example Sentences:
(1) Lumley has known Heatherwick for a long time – at least since 2004, when her autobiography described him as a designer of “incomparable originality” – and Johnson for much longer.
(2) "Zidane, Zidane, Zidane... France was in the grip of 'zizoumania'," Marcel Desailly wrote in his autobiography, reflecting on the triumph on home soil eight years ago, when giant images of the No 10 covered the sides of floodlit office blocks.
(3) Look what happened to Julian Assange's autobiography ."
(4) The popularity of criminal memoirs in the 1990s brought new opportunities and Reynolds wrote The Autobiography of a Thief in 1995.
(5) While its title suggests otherwise, The Autobiography of Malcolm X was a collaboration between the civil rights activist and journalist Alex Haley, who later wrote Roots.
(6) In his autobiography, Wesker comes across as an emotional, impulsive man with high nervous energy and an elevated libido.
(7) I wanted to do a real knock-your-socks-off interview for the FA, so I put together a PowerPoint which looked at every single detail,” he wrote in his autobiography.
(8) The former Smiths frontman's autobiography, published by Penguin Classics, has been an international bestseller.
(9) In his recent autobiography, Wild Tales , Graham Nash – of the Hollies and Crosby Stills & Nash – recalled the effect the song had on him when he heard it at a school dance in Salford: "It was like the opening of a giant door in my soul, the striking of a chord... from which I've never recovered … From the time when I first heard the Everly Brothers, I knew I wanted to make music that affected people the way the Everlys affected me."
(10) It was not our fault that we lost the game, I thought it was his.” Sunderland fans’ cheery endorsement of Allardyce’s appointment made the release of his autobiography happily timed, especially as, for now, the 60-year-old can still boast of never being relegated from the Premier League .
(11) This earlier shadow, this yearning and refracted autobiography, places Ballard at the heart of fiction of the unreal.
(12) Philip Purser, the Sunday Telegraph's long-serving TV critic, wrote in his 1992 autobiography, Done Viewing, that "the gravest disservice that Dallas did television was to create an appetite for flavours so strong and artificial that the palate was ruined for more subtle and natural tastes".
(13) Our readers say: arrivederci: Nobody has yet mentioned her wonderful two-volume autobiography Under My Skin and Walking in the Shade … she was a great writer.
(14) "), and sometimes moved by autobiographies and articles that turn the writer inside out?
(15) Her autobiographies had it both ways, as did she – "between the efficient young housewife of my first marriage and the rackety 'revolutionary' of 1943, 44, 45, there seems little connection.
(16) The movie, adapted from Mandela's autobiography, shows Madikizela-Mandela as a feisty young woman who falls in love with the struggle activist, only to be left to raise their children alone when he is arrested and jailed.
(17) This rigour was reflected in his autobiography, A Sense of Direction (1988).
(18) Weakness is having a problem and not recognising it and not solving it.” He also spoke to Holmes, who won a gold medal at the 2004 Olympics in the 800 metres and 1,500 metres, and who revealed her experience of depression in her autobiography.
(19) Robert Gates, promoting his autobiography about his time at the Pentagon, told the BBC that cuts in the number of military staff would limit the UK's global position.
(20) He says he loves hosting TV shows, he's currently writing a new comedy for BBC2, and of course there's the autobiography.
Obituary
Definition:
(n.) That which pertains to, or is called forth by, the obit or death of a person; esp., an account of a deceased person; a notice of the death of a person, accompanied by a biographical sketch.
(n.) A list of the dead, or a register of anniversary days when service is performed for the dead.
Example Sentences:
(1) It was very sweet, really nice, but it was like an obituary.
(2) Lech Kaczynski obituary Read more Many followers of Jarosław Kaczyński think the plane was downed by an intended blast and blame Russia and Poland’s prime minister at the time, Donald Tusk, who is now the president of the European Union.
(3) The following correction was printed in the Guardian's Corrections and clarifications column, Saturday November 17 2007 The obituary below said that some of the uranium used in the Little Boy atom bomb was snatched from Soviet-occupied Germany in 1945 by an Anglo-American special unit.
(4) In his book School Worship: An Obituary (1975), he argued against the practice of compulsory worship in inclusive schools.
(5) To my generation, death was as remote as the obituary pages of the newspaper.
(6) Twitter meanwhile is preparing career obituaries for Onyewu.
(7) Last year's annual report by the UN Conference on Trade and Development should have been an obituary for the neoliberal model developed by Hayek and Friedman and their disciples.
(8) Facebook Twitter Pinterest Jo Cox: ‘We’ve lost a great star’ – video obituary “Jo Cox was the most vivacious, personable, dynamic and committed friend you could ever have,” he said.
(9) Even after the Daily Mail's Jack Tinker (obituary, October 29 1996) contrived for Shulman's career as a theatre critic to be brought to an end in 1991, he continued to write a column for the Evening Standard on art affairs - until he was 83.
(10) Your obituary of Michael Meacher (22 October) underplays his significant contribution to the promotion of genuinely green policies.
(11) · Henry Bernard Levin, journalist, born August 19, 1928; died August 7, 2004 Quentin Crewe died in 1998, and the above obituary has been revised.
(12) He served fleetingly as a Confederate soldier before deserting ("his career as a soldier was brief and inglorious," said the New York Times obituary; in the autobiography Twain includes a sympathetic account of deserting soldiers being shot, without revealing the reason for his sense of identification).
(13) I was first of the "extraordinary talent" Anthony Sampson (obituary, December 21) recruited for Drum magazine.
(14) Updated at 10.47pm GMT 10.24pm GMT The Guardian's David Beresford, who was appointed Johannesburg correspondent in 1984, has filed an obituary of Nelson Mandela.
(15) Steve Howard, CEO of The Climate Group and chair of the World Economic Forum's Global Agenda Council on Climate Change "It's probably a bit too early to be writing the obituary of COP 16 just yet.
(16) Christine Cole Northampton • I think Philip Bowring almost completely misses the point in his obituary of Lee Kuan Yew.
(17) • Frankie Knuckles obituary • Frankie Knuckles - house pioneer and DJ - dies aged 59
(18) The following March, Milosevic was arrested on the orders of the liberal Serbian prime minister Zoran Djindjic, later to be assassinated ( obituary, March 13 2003 ).
(19) After his death the obituaries proclaimed Bellows one of the greatest of all American painters – a man more famous at the time than his friend and contemporary Edward Hopper.
(20) It was not until both Rothermere (obituary, September 3 1998) and his editor David English (obituary, June 11 1998) died within a short space of time that Dempster became inevitably less secure under the younger Lord Rothermere and Mail editor Paul Dacre.