Sentences with word «autobiographer»

Rocker Jimmy Barnes has become one of Australia's biggest - selling autobiographers of all time, with combined sales of the Cold Chisel singer's two - part memoir just surpassing 400,000 copies.

«Too many business autobiographers go to great lengths to portray themselves as all - knowing and unwavering on their path to success.

Autobiographers use selfies as a tool to record key events in their lives and preserve significant memories.

Like many ambivalent autobiographers before him, Michael Polley knows that his endeavour contains a dollop of fiction even as he believes that it represents his self, a self unique and fully formed upon birth.

Rather than the one autobiographer telling his «single self,» Polley's is a collaborative, choral autobiography.

Theater's ultimate autobiographer, Spalding Gray, and cinema's invisible - man auteur, Steven Soderbergh, teamed up for an eye - opening movie monologue.

Russell's autobiographer Paul Sutton, in the introduction to the published «Dracula» script, claims two Hollywood pictures were inspired by Russell's script and went as far to suggest plagiarism by Francis Ford Coppola's «Bram Stoker's Dracula.»

Diane Bjorklund, a scholar of autobiographies, has suggested that black autobiographers tend to portray themselves as «beleaguered,» and guard the sources of their identities.

Through May 16 Holland Cotter: William Powhida, art world vigilante, virtuoso draftsman, compulsive calligrapher, fantasist autobiographer and recently self - announced gallery owner and art dealer, has a semi-solo show at Schroeder - Romero well worth catching.

Emin has achieved a status in British public life that sometimes gets foisted on eccentric individuals: think of the late Quentin Crisp, life - model turned autobiographer and film critic; think of the self - parodic mad - eyed TV astronomer and xylophone player Patrick Moore; think of Grayson Perry, transvestite, potter, savant and motorcyclist.

The child felt pity and terror; the autobiographer breathes a sigh of relief.

After analyzing their survey results and interviews, researchers identified three categories of selfie - takers: communicators, autobiographers and self - publicists.

Only people who know me personally will recognize my «Hitchcock moment» but it lets me act out that «autobiographer» we all have in us.For more on how to create great characters, check out MJ Bush's list of 99 Essential Quotes on Character Creation.

There was a time in modern music when the role of the artist changed from being the custodian of cultural knowledge to something more of an autobiographer.

«I'm not a portrait painter: I'm an autobiographer,» Ms. Paul explained, contrasting her art and Mr. Freud's.

«I'm not a portrait painter: I'm an autobiographer,» she said.