Like many autobiographers, her honesty leans towards self-indulgence in her refusal to attempt to give the reader anything more than a blandly introspective narrative. |
Ethical biographers and autobiographers work with veracity as their aim and this striving for veracity is respected, and expected, by readers. |
He was diffident about his achievements, in contrast to the self-aggrandisement common to autobiographers. |
This is the time of year when the must-have accessory for TV comedians seems to be a celebrity memoir: autumn 2013 autobiographers include Sir David Jason, Jennifer Saunders, Peter Kay and Jack Whitehall. |
One of our living autobiographers states that when he was a small baby in Moscow in 1812 the French soldiers fed him with bread. |
This ode to education is also reminiscent of the glorification of American education by eighteenth-century male American autobiographers like Benjamin Franklin. |