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• n  someone who writes their own biography

• Beneath its artillery-barrage surface hides another warthe struggle, equally intense though never acknowledged, between an autobiographer's impulse to confess and his impulse .
• David Niven, 73, debonair British actor, bestselling autobiographer (The Moon's a Balloon, Bring On the Empty Horses) and novelist (Go Slowly, Come Back Quickly); ostensibly for .
• As an autobiographer, he is somewhat more realistic.

Quotes

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• John Rechy in Los Angeles Times
  I consider writers a hierarchy of liars,Rechy said on a recent afternoon, "and the autobiographer is the biggest liar of all."