Autobiography vs. Memoirs

Autobiographynoun

A self-written biography; the story of one's own life.

Autobiographynoun

A biography written by the subject of it; memoirs of one's life written by one's self.

Autobiographynoun

a biography of yourself

Autobiography

An autobiography (from the Greek, αὐτός-autos self + βίος-bios life + γράφειν-graphein to write; also informally called an autobio) is a self-written account of one's life. The word was first used deprecatingly by William Taylor in 1797 in the English periodical The Monthly Review, when he suggested the word as a hybrid, but condemned it as .

Memoirsnoun

An autobiography.