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Saint Augustine of Hippo wrote Confessions, the first Western autobiography ever written, around 400. Portrait by Philippe de Champaigne , 17th century. An autobiography , [ a ] sometimes informally called an autobio , is a self-written biography of one's own life.
It is widely seen as the first Western autobiography ever written [citation needed] (Ovid had invented the genre at the start of the first century AD with his Tristia) and was an influential model for Christian writers throughout the Middle Ages. Henry Chadwick wrote that Confessions will "always rank among the great masterpieces of western ...
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Screen legend Charlie Chaplin wrote his first memoir, My Autobiography, a decade after he was forced to flee the U.S. to Switzerland at the height of McCarthyism. (Chaplin, who long denied having ...
Confessions by Augustine of Hippo is not only the earliest known example of spiritual autobiography, but is widely seen as the first Western autobiography ever written. It consists of 13 books written in Latin between AD 397 and 400, and deals with Augustine's sinful youth and his conversion to Christianity.
Margery Kempe (c. 1373 – after 1438) was an English Catholic mystic, known for writing through dictation The Book of Margery Kempe, a work considered by some to be the first autobiography in the English language.
The biography of Mahavir Singh Phogat, popularized by the 2016 hit Hindi film Dangal: My many Trysts with God 2019 Autobiography - Adisakrit Publishing: Sonu Sood: I Am No Messiah: 2020 Ranjan Gogoi: Justice for the Judge: 2021 Dagdu Maruti Pawar: Baluta: 1978: Annabhau Sathe: Fakira: 1959: part myth, part autobiography Baburao Bagul
Many presidents of the United States have written autobiographies about their presidencies and/or (some periods of) their life before their time in office. Some 19th-century U.S. presidents who wrote autobiographies are James Buchanan and Ulysses S. Grant, though Grant's autobiography is about his time as general during the U.S. Civil War and ...