An autobiography is an obituary in serial form with the last installment missing.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
The biography of a writer - or even the autobiography - will always have this incompleteness.
What's upsetting about an autobiography is that the final chapter is always missing. I mean, you want the death, don't you?
I don't think anyone should write their autobiography until after they're dead.
Autobiography begins with a sense of being alone. It is an orphan form.
Sometimes a famous subject may even outlive his own obituary writer.
I'm fairly certain when I die that the obituary will say, 'Author of 'Angels in America' dies.' Unless I'm completely forgotten, and then it won't say anything at all.
I always wondered what hearing one's own obituary might sound like, and I sort of feel like I may have just heard part of it at least.
Having a memoir and a retrospective of your work running almost simultaneously when you're still alive does feel a bit posthumous.
An autobiography is a life story. It starts when you're born and continues until the end.
An autobiography is a book a person writes about his own life and it is usually full of all sorts of boring details.