An autobiography (from the Greek, αὐτός-autos self + βίος-bios life + γράφειν-graphein to write) is a book about the life of a person, written by that person.
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'; but its next recorded use was in its present sense by Robert Southey in 1809. The form of autobiography however goes back to antiquity. Biographers generally rely on a wide variety of documents and viewpoints; an autobiography, however, may be based entirely on the writer's memory. Closely associated with autobiography (and sometimes difficult to precisely distinguish from it) is the form of memoir.
See also: List of autobiographies and Category:Autobiographies for examples.
In antiquity such works were typically entitled apologia, purporting to be self-justification rather than self-documentation. John Henry Newman's autobiography (first published in 1864) is entitled Apologia Pro Vita Sua in reference to this tradition.
Dolly Rebecca Parton (born January 19, 1946) is an American singer-songwriter, author, multi-instrumentalist, actress and philanthropist, best known for her work in country music. As a songwriter, she has composed over 3,000 songs, the best known of which include "I Will Always Love You" (a two-time U.S. country chart-topper for Parton, as well an international pop hit for Whitney Houston), "Jolene", "Coat of Many Colors", "9 to 5" and "My Tennessee Mountain Home". As an actress, she starred in the movies 9 to 5, The Best Little Whorehouse in Texas, Steel Magnolias, Straight Talk, Unlikely Angel and Joyful Noise. She is one of the most successful female country artists of all time; with an estimated 100 million in album sales, Dolly Parton is also one of the best selling artists of all time. She is known as "The Queen of Country Music".
She was born in Sevierville, Tennessee, the fourth of twelve children of Avie Lee Parton (née Owens; October 5, 1923 – December 5, 2003) and Robert Lee Parton (March 22, 1921 – November 12, 2000), a tobacco farmer. Her siblings are: Willadeene Parton (born March 24, 1940), David Wilburn Parton (born March 30, 1942), Coy Denver "Denver" Parton (born August 16, 1943), Bobby Lee Parton (born February 18, 1948), Stella Mae Parton (born May 4, 1949), Cassie Nan Parton (February 12, 1951), Randel Huston "Randy" Parton (born December 15, 1953), Larry Gerald Parton (born and died July 6, 1955), Floyd and Frieda Estelle Parton (born June 1, 1957), and Rachel Ann Parton (born August 31, 1959). Her family was, as she has described them, "dirt poor". She outlined her family's lack of money in a number of her early songs, notably "Coat of Many Colors" and "In the Good Old Days (When Times Were Bad)". They lived in a rustic, dilapidated one-room cabin in Locust Ridge, Tennessee, a hamlet just north of the Greenbrier Valley, in the Locust Ridge area of the Great Smoky Mountains in Sevier County, a predominantly Pentecostal area.
Onika Tanya Maraj (born December 8, 1982), known by her stage name Nicki Minaj ( /mɪˈnɑːʒ/), is a Trinidadian-born American rapper and singer-songwriter. She was born in Saint James, Trinidad and Tobago and when she was 5 years of age she moved to the New York City borough of Queens, where she grew up.
After releasing three mixtapes between 2007 and 2009 and being signed to Young Money Entertainment in August 2009, Minaj released her debut album, Pink Friday, in November 2010. It quickly became a commercial success, peaking at number one on the U.S. Billboard 200 and being certified Platinum by the Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA) a month after its release. She became the first female solo artist to have seven singles on the Billboard Hot 100 at the same time. Her second single, "Your Love", reached number 1 on the Billboard Hot Rap Songs chart, making Minaj the first female artist to top the chart unaccompanied since 2002. She also became the first female artist to be included on MTV's Annual Hottest MC List. Minaj was named the 2011 Rising Star by Billboard. Her second studio album, Pink Friday: Roman Reloaded was released on April 3, 2012.
Benjamin Franklin (January 17, 1706 [O.S. January 6, 1705] – April 17, 1790) was one of the Founding Fathers of the United States. A noted polymath, Franklin was a leading author, printer, political theorist, politician, postmaster, scientist, musician, inventor, satirist, civic activist, statesman, and diplomat. As a scientist, he was a major figure in the American Enlightenment and the history of physics for his discoveries and theories regarding electricity. He invented the lightning rod, bifocals, the Franklin stove, a carriage odometer, and the glass 'armonica'. He formed both the first public lending library in America and the first fire department in Pennsylvania.
Franklin earned the title of "The First American" for his early and indefatigable campaigning for colonial unity; as an author and spokesman in London for several colonies, then as the first United States Ambassador to France, he exemplified the emerging American nation. Franklin was foundational in defining the American ethos as a marriage of the practical and democratic values of thrift, hard work, education, community spirit, self-governing institutions, and opposition to authoritarianism both political and religious, with the scientific and tolerant values of the Enlightenment. In the words of historian Henry Steele Commager, "In a Franklin could be merged the virtues of Puritanism without its defects, the illumination of the Enlightenment without its heat." To Walter Isaacson, this makes Franklin "the most accomplished American of his age and the most influential in inventing the type of society America would become."
Kim Jong-il (born Yuri Irsenovich Kim; 16 February 1941; official biography claims 1942 – 17 December 2011) was the supreme leader of North Korea (DPRK) from 1994 to 2011. He succeeded his father and founder of the DPRK Kim Il-sung following the elder Kim's death in 1994. Kim Jong-il was the General Secretary of the Workers' Party of Korea, Chairman of the National Defence Commission of North Korea, and the supreme commander of the Korean People's Army, the fourth-largest standing army in the world.
In April 2009, North Korea's constitution was amended to refer to him as the "supreme leader". He was also referred to as the "Dear Leader", "our Father", and "the General", among others. His son Kim Jong-un was promoted to a senior position in the ruling Workers' Party and is his successor. In 2010, he was ranked 31st in Forbes Magazine's List of The World's Most Powerful People. The North Korean government announced his death on 19 December 2011.
Following his demise, he was succeeded by his third son Kim Jong-un. He was proclaimed the Eternal General Secretary of the Workers' Party of Korea and Eternal Chairman of the National Defence Commission in 2012. His birthday is a public holiday in the country.
(Nicki Speakinq]; This Is The Autobioqraphy Of Nicki Maraj
[Chorus:]
May The Lord Protect Me As The World Gets Hectic
My Voice Projected My Life Reflected
May The Lord Protect Me As The World Gets Hectic.
My Voice Projected, My Life Reflected.
[Verse 1:]
Daddy Was A Crack Fiend.
Two In The Morning Had Us Runnin' Down The Block Like A Track Team.
When He Burned The House Down And My Mother Was In It, How Could I Forqet It, The Pain Was Infinite.
She's My Queen And I Ain't Even British.
She's The Only Reason That I Went To School And I Finished. (yeah)
She Told Me That I Had Talent, Got On Her Knees And Prayed For Me When I Started Being Violent.
She Saw Something In Me That, Til This Day I Don't Know If I Could Be That. But I'ma Die Trying.
And When I'm Done Crying, Grab The Iron , And Black Out Like I'm Retiring.
Nightmares Of Yu Killing My Mother, The Reason That I Sleep With My Head Under The Covers.
And They Shoulda Thrown The Book At You, Cause I Hate You So Much That It Burn When I Look At You.
[Chorus: x2]
May The Lord Protect Me As The World Gets Hectic,
My Voice Projected, My Life Reflected.
[Verse 2:]
Damn I Wanna Run To You
Hold You & Kiss You & Tell You How I Miss You.
Thought I Would Have A Son for You
But Now It's Official It's Over And I Can't Let You Go
But I Gotta Let You Know, All The Sh*t I Did Make Me Feel
Like I'm Dying Real Slow. Cause No One Understands Me,
They Don't Know What To Do, When I'm Hurt, When I'm Angry.
You Was My Friend, And My Man And My Daddy.
You Was There When That bitch Tried To Stab Me.
Anything I Ever Needed, Knew You Had Me
Cause Of You, All Them Chicks Couldn't Stand Me.
So Why Hurt You? That's The Question.
It Took This Long For Me To Learn My Lesson.
Cause Now All I Want Is Peace, And Get Drama,
I Finally Understand The True Meaning Of Karma.
[Chorus: x2]
May The Lord Protect Me As The World Gets Hectic.
My Voice Projected, My Life Reflected.
[Verse 2:]
Please Baby Forgive Me.(Forgive Me)
Mommy Was Young, Mommy Was Too Busy Tryna Have Fun.
But Now I Pat Myself On The Back, For Sending You Back, Cause God Knows I Was Better Than That.
To Conceive You Then Leave You, The Concept Alone Seems Evil I'm Trapped In My Conscious.
I Adhere To The Nonsense Listening To People Who Told Me I Wasn't Ready For You.
But How The Fuck Would They Know What I Was Ready To Do?
And Of Course It Wasn't Your Fault, I Could Feel You In The Air, I Hear You
Saying "Mommy Don't Cry Can't You See I'm Right Here?"
I gotta Let You Know What You Mean To Me.
When I'm Sleep, I Could See You In My Dreams With Me
Wish I Could Touch Your Little Face And Hold Ya Little Hand
If It's Part Of God's Plan Maybe We Can Meet Again
[Chorus: x2]
May The Lord Protect Me As The World Gets Hectic.
I'm writing "young and gifted",
In my autobiography,
I figured, who would know,
Better than me?
I'm certainly the former,
But I'm *not* so much the latter,
But noone's gonna read it,
So I'm sure it doesn't matter.
When you find that you're the former,
Take pride in how you form.
When you find that you're the ladder,
Don't let those people walk under you-ooh.
I'm writing "sharp and adult",
With my finger on the steam,
On the mirror in my bathroom,
And I'm applying shaving cream.
Which would suggest that I'm the foamer
But how *can* I be the lather,
And something tells me,
It's the opposite I'd rather.
When you find that you're the foamer,
Be careful what you foam.
When you find that you're the lather,
Don't shave too high,
You'll regret it later,
La...La La La...La La La La
La...La La La...La La La La
I've stayed in school this long
But still no one will tell me why,
They figured who would know,
Better than I?
I know I'm a conformer,
But I'm *sure* it doesn't matter,
My new friends are all adults,
And my old friends all have scattered.
When you find you're a conformer,
Take pride and swallow whole.
If you're trying to climb the ladder,
Don't let people walk over you.
Because that's just what they'll do.
Don't let people walk over you.
I never wrote a song called "Cocaine"
I never told a lie
I never wrote a song called "After Midnight"
But my name is Cale
You can call me John
Yes my name is Cale
I know, I know, I know
How that will be
I don't come from Oklahoma
I don't come from the Midwest
I come from South Wales
I come from nearby Swansea
And the name of the village
The name of the village is Garnant
I know, I know ...
You remember when you were a kid
You remember when you were whole
I never remember anything I do
I'll never be part of history
I'll never be part of history
You wanna think about how you like your friends
You wanna think about, if you have any friends at all
Any friends at all
I don't wanna know, I don't wanna know
I don't wanna know how others feel
I never wrote a song called "Cocaine"
I never told a lie
I never wrote a song called "After Midnight"
But my name is Cale
You can call me John
I'll be your friend
I know, I know, I know
You think you know me
Word on the street is that you do
You want my history
What others tell you won't be true
I walked a thousand miles while everyone was asleep
Nobody's really seen my million subtleties
Got stains on my t-shirt and I'm the biggest flirt
Right now I'm solo, but that will be changing eventually, oh
Got bruises on my heart and sometimes I get dark
If you want my auto, want my autobiography
Baby, just ask me
I hear you talking
Well, it's my turn now
I'm talking back
Look in my eyes
So you can see just where I'm at
I walked a thousand miles to find one river of peace
I walked a million more to find out what this shit means
Got stains on my t-shirt and I'm the biggest flirt
Right now I'm solo, but that will be changing eventually, oh
Got bruises on my heart and sometimes I get dark
If you want my auto, want my autobiography
Baby, just ask me
I'm a bad ass girl in this messed up world
I'm the sexy girl in this crazy world
I'm a simple girl in a complex world
A nasty girl, you wanna get with me?
You wanna mess with me?
Got stains on my t-shirt and I'm the biggest flirt
Right now I'm solo, but that will be changing eventually, oh
I laugh more than I cry
You piss me off, good-bye
Got bruises on my heart and sometimes I get dark
If you want my auto, want my autobiography