Autobiographies in a sentence

Mathematical autobiographies Several well known mathematicians have written autobiographies in part to explain to a general audience what it is about mathematics that has made them want to devote their lives to its study.

Aside from stage plays, he is a seasoned ghost writer for autobiographies and children's books.

Autobiographies are complicated to film, and this one was very complicated.

If writers of autobiographies tend to profess themselves innocent of the bad bits that the world knows about, and skip entirely the naughty bits that didn’t come to public knowledge, Sanders is frank.

The Academy Award-winner has long been a prolific memoirist, with several autobiographies about her life in Hollywood and New Age spirituality (including sharing her thoughts on the afterlife), already published.

And it’s being promoted via testimonials in specialist magazines, autobiographies of extreme adventurers and TV reality shows.

The former Arsenal captain, whose battle with alcoholism is well documented, not least in his autobiographies Addicted and Sober, is speaking hours before the charity he founded and pioneered celebrates its 20th anniversary with a dinner.

Will they take deals to promote products or bring out autobiographies or start producing their own films and documentaries?

His two autobiographies showcased a genuine talent, though writing is not an easy option, he says.

In 1857, Mary Seacole published one of the earliest autobiographies by a mixed-race woman, on her experience as a traveling nurse, titled Wonderful Adventures of Mrs. Seacole in Many Lands.

Baker, p. 161. She also wrote two autobiographies designed to promote the cause.

George Bull, The Autobiography, London 1966 p. 15. These criteria for autobiography generally persisted until recent times, and most serious autobiographies of the next three hundred years conformed to them.

His Autobiographies of William Butler Yeats was published that same year.

Nimoy's profile as Spock was such that both of his autobiographies, I Am Not Spock (1975) and I Am Spock (1995), were written from the viewpoint of sharing his existence with the character.

Other works included sporting anecdotes, theatrical autobiographies, guide-books, and 'fancy ditties'.

Pelé has published several autobiographies, starred in documentary films, and composed musical pieces, including the soundtrack for the film Pelé in 1977.

Some sensationalist autobiographies such as James Frey's A Million Little Pieces have been publicly exposed as having embellished or fictionalized significant details of the authors' lives.

The tales written to inspire the abolitionist struggle are the most famous because they tend to have a strong autobiographical motif, such as in Frederick Douglass ' autobiographies and Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl by Harriet Jacobs (1861).

With the rise of education, cheap newspapers and cheap printing, modern concepts of fame and celebrity began to develop, and the beneficiaries of this were not slow to cash in on this by producing autobiographies.