![]() ![]() The inability-or unwillingness-of the author to accurately recall memories has in certain cases resulted in misleading or incorrect information. Biography LifeĪutobiographical works are by nature subjective. The memoir form is closely associated with autobiography but it tends, as Pascal claims, to focus less on the self and more on others during the autobiographer's review of their own life. ![]() While biographers generally rely on a wide variety of documents and viewpoints, autobiography may be based entirely on the writer's memory. Autobiography thus takes stock of the autobiographer's life from the moment of composition. Roy Pascal differentiates autobiography from the periodic self-reflective mode of journal or diary writing by noting that " is a review of a life from a particular moment in time, while the diary, however reflective it may be, moves through a series of moments in time". Despite only being named early in the nineteenth century, first-person autobiographical writing originates in antiquity. However, its next recorded use was in its present sense, by Robert Southey in 1809. The word "autobiography" 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 "pedantic". ![]() Portrait by Philippe de Champaigne, 17th century.Īn autobiography, sometimes informally called an autobio, is a self-written biography of one's own life. Saint Augustine of Hippo wrote Confessions, the first Western autobiography ever written, around 400. ![]()
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