autobiographicaladj.

1807 A. Aikin Ann. Rev. & Hist. Lit. 5 xiii. 584/1 Much that is known concerning the life of Milton, is inference from the auto-biographical passages dispersed in his several writings.

1834 T. Carlyle Sartor Resartus ii. ii. 34/1 These Autobiographical times of ours.

1880 L. Stephen Alexander Pope viii. 186 Pope takes advantage of the suggestions in Horace to be thoroughly autobiographical.

1934 H. G. Wells Exper. in Autobiogr. II. ix. 679 If I were to put my reputation before my autobiographical rectitude, I think I should just let this little volume decay and char and disappear.

1972 ‘P. Ruell’ Red Christmas xi. 102 He seemed to be in the middle of an autobiographical shaggy-dog story.

2006 The Word July 56/1 I used to think Grant's songs were artily poetic, until I met his family and realised they were all autobiographical.

1832 Q. Rev. Dec. 394 This absurdity reaches its climax in the autobiographical novel—the very essence of which is, to present things as they occur to the writer.

1874 G. Cameron (title) Charlie Lufton: an autobiographical novel.

1971 N.Y. Times 7 June 31 Daniel instead produces notes toward an autobiographical novel about his Old-Left parents.

2009 Sunday Tel. (Nexis) 25 Oct. (Travel section) 4 Mother Land is an unusual autobiographical novel based on exquisite descriptions of a childhood spent on the Aegean island of Bozcaada.