Biography vs. Autobiography

Biographynoun

A person's life story, especially one published.

Biographynoun

The art of writing this kind of story.

Biographyverb

(transitive) To write a biography of.

Biographynoun

The written history of a person's life.

Biographynoun

Biographical writings in general.

Biographynoun

an account of the series of events making up a person's life

Biography

A biography, or simply bio, is a detailed description of a person's life. It involves more than just the basic facts like education, work, relationships, and death; it portrays a person's experience of these life events.

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 .