Wise director initially hailed in new autobiographical book (5,4,5)

I believe the answer is:

cider with rosie

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'autobiographical book' is the definition.
'cider with rosie' can be an answer for 'book' (I've seen this before). I'm not certain of the 'autobiographical' bit.

'wise director initially hailed in new' is the wordplay.
'initially' suggests taking the first letters.
'new' is an anagram indicator.
The initial letters of 'hailed in' is 'hi'.
'wise'+'director'+'hi'='wisedirectorhi'
'wisedirectorhi' is an anagram of 'CIDER WITH ROSIE'.

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(Other definitions for cider with rosie that I've seen before include "novel" , "book" .)

I've seen this clue in The Times.

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