biography

A biography is a description or account of someone's life and the times, which is usually published in the form of a book or an essay, or in some other form, such as a film. An autobiography (auto meaning "self," giving "self-biography") is a biography of a person's life written or told by that same person. A biography is more than a list of impersonal facts (education, work, relationships, and death), it also portrays the subject's experience of those events. Unlike a profile or curriculum vitae (résumé), a biography presents the subject's story, highlighting various aspects of his or her life, including intimate details of experiences, and may include an analysis of the subject's personality. A work is biographical if it covers all of a person's life. As such, 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. Together, all biographical works form the genre known as...

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
Content: Biographies in Sound  Desert Island Discs  Leonard Bernstein: An American Life  The Miles Davis Radio Report
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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
Websites of this genre: WebBiographies  NNDB
Child genres: The American Poet Who Went Home Again
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  Complaints of a Dutiful Daughter  Don King: Only in America  George Wallace
Artwork on the Subject: ELEMENTAL, The Power of Illuminated Love
Related Web Pages: Wikipedia

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Biography.com
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The Biography Channel - Bios Search
SEARCH BIOGRAPHY.COM. Go. Search Bios. Search over 25,000 of the greatest lives, past and ... Visit your favorite Biography Channel program sites! BIOGRAPHYÂ® ...

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Biography - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
A biography is more than a list of impersonal facts (education, work, relationships, and death), it also portrays the subject's experience of those events. ...

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Biography - Infoplease
Biographies of Presidents, Athletes, Justices, Entertainers, World Leaders, and more people.

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biography: Definition from Answers.com
biography n. , pl. , -phies . An account of a person's life written, composed, or produced by another: a film biography of Adlai Stevenson; an oral

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Biography | Define Biography at Dictionary.com
Biography definition, a written account of another person's life: See more.

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complete biography or info of hayley williams of paramore?
- Born 1988 December 27 - Moved to Franklin Tennessee when she was 13 - Met Josh and Zac Farro - Zac used to give her mixed cd's of bands like Kimmy Eat World, New ...

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Jane Goodall: Biography from Answers.com
Jane Goodall , Ethologist / Activist Born: 3 April 1934 Birthplace: London, England Best Known As: Chimpanzee expert and conservationist Jane Goodall

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Rajnikanth (I) - Biography
biography other works publicity contact photo gallery resume Twitter blog ... Mini Biography. The Tamil megastar of the 80s and 90s he was one of the highest earning ...

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Portal:Biography - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Biography (from the Greek words bíos (βίος), meaning 'life', and ... While a biography may focus on a fictional person, the term usually refers to non-fiction ...

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