Semiautobiographical

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What do we mean by semiautobiographical?

Of, relating to, or being a work that falls between fiction and autobiography. adjective

Partially, but not entirely, autobiographical adjective

Of or relating to a work that combines autobiography and fiction adjective

Partially, but not entirely, autobiographical

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The word "semiautobiographical" in example sentences

The interview also spends significant time on Feiffer's "semiautobiographical novel" for young readers, The Man in the Ceiling. ❋ Unknown (2009)

Like undergraduates everywhere, we exchanged drafts of work; visited each other's studios; gifted stories, poems, and end-of-semester projects; wore too much black; organized readings; invited faculty to dinner; drank a lot of bad wine; stayed up all night debating aesthetics; and wrote semiautobiographical novels, Symbolist stories, and earnest poetry collections for our theses--some of them good enough to be published. ❋ Zoe Triska (2011)

During the rest of the Herbst Theatre show, she sang tender songs by Gustav Mahler and Maurice Ravel, a moving version of Stephen Sondheim's "Send in the Clowns," and modern, semiautobiographical songs by Jake Heggie and Carol Hall. ❋ David Littlejohn (2012)

"Identification Marks: None" began a series of four semiautobiographical films, in three of which the director starred. ❋ Anthony Paletta (2011)

But there's no mistaking the nature of Alike's struggle, or the abundance of talent that's gone into the making of Ms. Rees's semiautobiographical film. ❋ Joe Morgenstern (2012)

What's the story behind "Ghost Light," Jon Moscone's semiautobiographical play that deals with the assassination of his father, San Francisco Mayor George Moscone, which will open in January 2012? ❋ Vauhini Vara (2011)

He was all of 21 when the movie was shot, and one year younger when he made "I Killed My Mother," his semiautobiographical debut feature about himself as a young homosexual. ❋ Joe Morgenstern (2011)

Paul Giamatti and Amy Ryan (double huzzah!) have joined the cast of "Win Win," which McCarthy is writing and directing as a semiautobiographical tale about a teen runaway who is taken in by a suburban New Jersey couple and joins the local high school's wrestling team (McCarthy wasn't the runaway, but rather one of his teammates.) ❋ Reel Fanatic (2010)

Lena Dunham, now 24 years old, is the writer, director and star of this marvelously strange, semiautobiographical comedy about 22-year-old Aura, a young woman who diagnoses herself to be in a state of postgraduate delirium. ❋ Joe Morgenstern (2010)

It was the soundtrack to a film featuring Carey in her first starring role, a semiautobiographical musical that was impossible to watch and seemed to close before it opened. ❋ Fred Goodman (2010)

Jules Massenet ' s " Werther " of 1892 was written 118 years after Goethe ' s epistolary, semiautobiographical novel. ❋ David Littlejohn (2010)

Well it stars Natalie Dormer, Katie Cassidy and X-FILES star Xzhibit and is supposedly a "coming-of-age, semiautobiographical" movie with "no supernatural elements." ❋ Unknown (2008)

In a performance that, to borrow an old Dorothy Parker line, runs the gamut of emotions from A to B, Carey stars in the semiautobiographical drama as Billie Frank, a striver who grows up in an orphanage after being abandoned by her white father and drunken, self-destructive African-American mother. ❋ Nathan Rabin (2010)

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