A biography is a detailed description or account of someone's life. More than a list of basic facts (education, work, relationships, and death), biography also portrays the subject's experience of those events. Unlike a profile or curriculum vitae (résumé), a biography presents the subject's life story, highlighting various aspects of his or her life, including intimate details of experience, and may include an analysis of the subject's personality.
Biographical works are usually non-fiction, but fiction can also be used to portray a person's life. One in-depth form of biographical coverage is called legacy writing. Biographical works in diverse media—from literature to film—form the genre known as biography.
An autobiography is written by the subject him or herself. An authorized biography is written with the cooperation of family and heirs, or of the subject if alive.
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Awards in this discipline: National Biography Award National Book Critics Circle Award for Biography National Book Critics Circle Award for Biography/Autobiography Spur Award for Best Nonfiction Biography Duff Cooper Prize PEN/Jacqueline Bograd Weld Award for Biography Los Angeles Times Book Prize for Biography Works Written About This Topic: Daniel Boone What Do You Care What Other People Think? Into the Wild Cave of a Thousand Tales Baden-Powell Howard Phillips Lovecraft: Dreamer on the Nightside The Devils of Loudun Darwin and His Great Discovery Tom Cruise: Unauthorized Into the Mouth of the Cat Books In This Genre: Camera Workers: The British Columbia Photographers Directory, 1858-1900 Varèse : astronomer in sound Varèse; a looking-glass diary The Life of Raymond Chandler J. R. R. Tolkien: A Biography Mandela: The Authorised Biography Curly: An Illustrated Biography of the Superstooge Muhammad: a Biography of the Prophet Frida A Biography of Frida Kahlo Lawrence of Arabia: The Authorized Biography of T.E. Lawrence Associated Works: Events, Books Highlight Flannery O'Connor Legacy (part 4) Those Who Wait Events, Books Highlight Flannery O'Connor Legacy (part 3) The N-Word Factor Savannah Talks Troy Anthony Davis Series To Walk a Lifetime in Michael Jackson's Moccasins Michael Jackson and Summertime from This Point On Portraits of U.S. Artists in the Southeast City of Savannah Bids Farewell to Beloved Poet Clinton D. Powell Franz Kafka's Noble Nighmares and Reasons Tribute to Author and Poet Georg Edvard Mateos Looking at the World through Michael Jackson's Left Eye (Part 1) Content: Biographies in Sound Desert Island Discs Leonard Bernstein: An American Life The Miles Davis Radio Report Films of this genre: Into the Wild Charlie Wilson's War Ue wo Muite Arukou Julie & Julia Talmage Farlow The Lady in Question is Charles Busch The Crossing The Gathering Storm Unknown Chaplin Mandela Films On This Subject: This Dust of Words Otto Frank, father of Anne Websites of this genre: WebBiographies NNDB Child genres: Autobiography Memoir Parent genre: Non-fiction Titles: Pearl The Child I Never Was The Flor Contemplacion Story Yankee Doodle Dandy They Call Me Sirr Tales of Ordinary Madness The Happiest Millionaire Brigham Young 1492 Conquest of Paradise King David Quotations About This Subject: When my journal appears, many statues must come down. There is properly no history; only biography. A well-written life is almost as rare as a well-spent one. There never was a good biography of a good novelist. There couldn't be. He is too many people, if he's any good.; No sooner does a great man depart, and leave his character as public property, than a crowd of little men rushes towards it. There they are gathered together, blinking up to it with such vision as they have, scanning it from afar, hovering round it this way and that, each cunningly endeavoring, by all arts, to catch some reflex of it in the little mirror of himself.; Biographies are but the clothes and buttons of the man. The biography of the man himself cannot be written.;
Biography should be written by an acute enemy. Great geniuses have the shortest biographies. Only when one has lost all curiosity about the future has one reached the age to write an autobiography.; I am opposed to writing about the private lives of living authors and psychoanalyzing them while they are alive. Criticism is getting all mixed up with a combination of the Junior F.B.I. -men, discards from Freud and Jung and a sort of Columnist peep-hole and missing laundry list school. Every young English professor sees gold in them dirty sheets now. Imagine what they can do with the soiled sheets of four legal beds by the same writer and you can see why their tongues are slavering.;
Projects: African American National Biography Project TV programs of this genre: This Is Your Life True Stories John Adams Oshin The Living Century I Shouldn't Be Alive American Masters Don King: Only in America George Wallace Sadat: Action Biography Artwork on the Subject: Elemental: The Power of Illuminated Love Related Web Pages:
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