autobiography /ˌɔː.tə.baɪˈɒɡ.ɹə.fi/ noun2 •A self-written biography; the story of one's own life.Autobiography […] inevitably consists mainly of extinctions of the truth, shirkings of the truth, partial revealments of the truth, with hardly an instance of plain straight truth […] — 1904 •Biographies of this kind regarded as a literary genre. formsautobiographies