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While an autobiography typically focuses on the "life and times" of the writer, a memoir has a narrower, more intimate focus on the author's memories, feelings and emotions. Memoirs have often been written by politicians or military leaders as a way to record and publish an account of their public exploits.
Writing an autobiography on Wikipedia is an example of conflict-of-interest editing and is strongly discouraged. Editing a biography about yourself is acceptable only if you are removing unambiguous vandalism or clear-cut and serious violations of our biography of living persons policy .
An alphabiography is an autobiography, often set as an English studies project for high school or college students, consisting of a set of twenty-six short stories or chapters about the writer's life. [1] Each story or chapter has a title starting with a different letter of the alphabet, for example: "Apple growing", "Baseball", "Cynthia" etc ...
Life writing is an expansive genre that primarily deals with the purposeful recording of personal memories, experiences, opinions, and emotions for different ends. While what actually constitutes life writing has been up for debate throughout history, it has often been defined through the lens of the history of the autobiography genre as well as the concept of the self as it arises in writing.
This category is meant to include all 50 U.S. states and the African American experience. It also includes distinctively American experience abroad, in the same way that "British" includes a diverse group, such as war experience from the American perspective.
Martha Stewart announced on TODAY that she is writing an autobiography with Random House. Here's what to know about her book.
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The real Bob Dylan and Joan Baez at a press call in London at the start of Dylan's tour on April 27, 1965. The resulting conversation helped Barbaro shift away from doing an impression of Baez.