The word "autobiography" is correct and usable in written English.
You can use it to refer to a written account of a person's own life and experiences. For example: His autobiography was a best seller.
Blair's A Journey sold 92,060 copies in its first four days on sale last week, according to Nielsen BookScan – the best ever opening week sale for an autobiography since the book sales monitor's records began, in 1998, and well ahead of Mandelson's The Third Man's performance, which sold 14,960 copies in three days when it was published in July.
Although Blair cancelled a signing event at Waterstone's in central London scheduled for today, fearing protests, the bookseller nonetheless said A Journey had become its fastest selling autobiography ever, based on first-day sales.
In his autobiography The Breaks Are Off, for example, published two years ago at the start of an England one-day international tour of India, he caused a stir with his appraisal of Kevin Pietersen's lack of aptitude for captaincy.
Ferguson's retelling of the story in his first autobiography is exactly as you would expect.
Palin continued: "Did you go as crazy when your heroic Man-of-Your-Lifetime, Barack Obama, revealed he actually enjoyed eating dead dog meat?" In his autobiography, Dreams From My Father, the president wrote about eating dog meat – which he said was "tough" – in Indonesia, in his childhood.
At 35 ("Too old to be doing showbiz nonsense") he ghost-wrote Martine McCutcheon's autobiography and helped set up teen portal MyKindaPlace.
The South African-born batsman's subsequent autobiography, released last October and in which he was particularly scathing about Downton and Peter Moores, the England coach, appeared to end any hopes of a recall.
But when the time comes, as it inevitably will in one or two years, for his autobiography to be ghostwritten, it will lead with the head.
In his first autobiography Roy Keane recalls Andy Townsend captaining Ireland against Northern Ireland at Windsor Park and being stunned - yes, stunned - to find the crowd a seething pit of sectarian hate.
Andrea Pirlo's autobiography has been getting plenty of attention since the English translation was released this month, and if you have not yet picked up a copy I would thoroughly recommend it.
In his autobiography, MacGregor dismissed the exchange as "largely a matter of semantics" and played down the seriousness of the rift.
