Autobiographies are important because they give people a way to leave a part of them behind. Also autobiographies give people a way to understand why a person acts, thinks the way they do, or the way that person is perceived throughout their life. This understanding lets people sympathize with the author of the autobiography or just let the reader know what it was like for the author. An autobiography is some one's life story written by them, where as a biography is the story of some one's life written by another person. Autobiographies actually lets the reader know what the person is thinking or feeling because it is written by the person themselves. A biography does not give the reader that luxury because the writer does not know what the person they are writing about is feeling so they can only give the facts about their person they are writing about. Autobiographies are worth reading because they give the reader an insight to the person they are reading about. The reader can learn everything about the person they are reading about including the way the person thinks and why that person thinks the way they do. Autobiographies are much more in depth than biographies because of these things and are definitely worth reading if you are trying to learn about a person.