autobiography

Summary

autobiography is a literary genre^[1]. autobiography ranks in the top 5% of literary_genre entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (1,876 views/month).^[2]

Key Facts

• autobiography's instance of is recorded as literary genre^[3].
• autobiography's instance of is recorded as book form^[4].
• autobiography is a type of biography^[5].
• autobiography is a type of personal narrative^[6].
• autobiography's Commons category is recorded as Autobiographies^[7].
• autobiography is the opposite of heterobiography^[8].
• autobiography's topic's main category is recorded as Category:Autobiographies^[9].
• autobiography's described by source is recorded as Small Brockhaus and Efron Encyclopedic Dictionary^[10].
• autobiography's described by source is recorded as Armenian Soviet Encyclopedia, vol. 4^[11].
• autobiography's described by source is recorded as Basque Literature Terms Dictionary^[12].
• autobiography's partially coincident with is recorded as memoir^[13].
• autobiography's native label is recorded as {'lang': 'la', 'text': 'biographia'}^[14].
• autobiography's different from is recorded as memoir^[15].
• autobiography's different from is recorded as autobiographical fiction^[16].
• autobiography's different from is recorded as personal history^[17].

Body

Definition and Type

Recorded instance of include literary genre^[3] and book form^[4]. Recorded subclass of include biography^[5] and personal narrative^[6]. autobiography is the opposite of heterobiography^[8].

Why It Matters

autobiography ranks in the top 5% of literary_genre entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (1,876 views/month).^[2] autobiography has Wikipedia articles in 30 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.^[18] autobiography is known by 88 alternative names across languages and contexts.^[19]