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autobiography

genre and publication type, biography written by the subject
Intangible literary_genre Q4184
autobiography
Alice Thonton and Surtees Society in 1875 · Public Domain · Wikimedia
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Summary

autobiography is a literary genre[1]. autobiography ranks in the top 5% of literary genre entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (6,334 views/month).[2]

Key Facts

  • Instance of: book form[3]
  • Subclass of: biography[4], personal narrative[5]
  • Commons category: Autobiographies[6]
  • Opposite of: heterobiography[7]
  • Topic's main category: Category:Autobiographies[8]
  • Described by source: Small Brockhaus and Efron Encyclopedic Dictionary[9], Armenian Soviet Encyclopedia, vol. 4[10], Basque Literature Terms Dictionary[11]
  • Partially coincident with: memoir[12]
  • Native label: biographia[13]
  • Different from: memoir[14], autobiographical fiction[15], personal history[16]

Why It Matters

autobiography has Wikipedia articles in 30 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.[17] autobiography is known by 109 alternative names across languages and contexts.[18]

Related Entities

Agatha Christie Aleksandr Medved Alphonse de Lamartine Anthony Trollope Arthur Ashe Arthur Koestler Banine Belgirate Benvenuto Cellini Commentarii de Bello Gallico Confessions David Beckham Diary of Anne Frank Ecce Homo Elizabeth Gilbert Evelyn Waugh Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas François-Auguste-René de Chateaubriand Gabrielle Roy Gerald Durrell Gerhard Schröder Grazia Deledda Homage to Catalonia José de Alencar Journey to the End of the Night Karl Ove Knausgård Klaus Mann Little Women Marius Taciuc Mein Kampf

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Direct Wikidata claims

  1. [3] ↑ . wikidata.org.
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  9. [11] ↑ . euskaltzaindia.eus. Retrieved . euskaltzaindia.eus. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  10. [12] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  11. [13] ↑ . wikidata.org.
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  14. [16] ↑ . wikidata.org.

Class ancestry

  1. [1] ↑ . Wikidata. wikidata.org.

Aggregate / graph-position facts

  1. [2] ↑ . Wikimedia Foundation. dumps.wikimedia.org.
  2. [17] ↑ . Wikidata sitelinks. wikidata.org.
  3. [18] ↑ . Wikidata aliases. wikidata.org.

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Rolling log of changes to this entity's Wikidata record. Values shown reflect the current state of each edited property — follow the history link to see the precise diff for any edit.

  1. 9w ago · LadyData · 2026-08-09 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Imdb keyword → autobiographical
    "/* wbsetclaim-create:1||1 */ Imdb keyword: autobiographical, Matched to [[:toollabs:mix-n-match/#/entry/193890775|autobiographical (#193890775)]] in [[:toollabs:mix-n-match/#/catalog/6965|Top 1"
  2. 15w ago · Andre Engels · 2026-06-26 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Mississippi encyclopedia id → autobiography
    "/* wbsetclaim-create:1||1 */ Mississippi encyclopedia id: autobiography, Matched to [[:toollabs:mix-n-match/#/entry/83597341|Autobiography (#83597341)]] in [[:toollabs:mix-n-match/#/catalog/3019|Missi"
  3. 16w ago · Susmuffin · 2026-06-18 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Harper's tag → ['autobiographies', 'autobiography']
    "/* wbsetclaim-create:1||1 */ Harper's tag: autobiographies, Matched to [[:toollabs:mix-n-match/#/entry/289914605|autobiographies (#289914605)]] in [[:toollabs:mix-n-match/#/catalog/7915|Harper'"
  4. 17w ago · MariuszRokin · 2026-06-12 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Svkkl authority id → 0259860-autobiografie
    "/* wbcreateclaim-create:1| */ Svkkl authority id: 0259860-autobiografie, [[:toollabs:quickstatements/#/batch/259599|batch #259599]]"
  5. 20w ago · Twofivesixbot bot · 2026-05-23 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Local thumb → —
    "/* wbsetclaim-update-qualifiers:1||1|3 */ National library of israel j9u id: 987007295713205171, mv to monolingual text names on J9U statements"
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