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biography /bʌɪˈɒɡrəfi /noun (plural biographies)1An account of someone’s life written by someone else.Hey, there are people writing novels and biographies using pictures as well as words....- Was it possible to write the bestselling biography to match the box-office hit?
- Drummund, who was also a biographer for Billy Graham, wrote an excellent biography on Finney which deals with this.
Synonyms life story, life history, life, memoir, profile, account informal bio, biog rare prosopography 1.1 [mass noun] Biographies considered as a literary genre: the basic difference of approach to autobiography and biography...- Over the past 27 years, Norman Sherry has been pioneering a new literary genre: biography as ordeal.
- By taking on these sympathetic forms, literary biography can supply parallel narratives to those of novels.
- It is closer to literary Criticism, than biography but without ever being boring.
1.2The course of a person’s life: although their individual biographies are different, both are motivated by a similar ambition...- It exposes the paradox that Plath's texts cannot be read through biography and cannot be read apart from it.
- Some knowledge of Shapiro's biography is open to any reader in the dedication.
- Over the centuries, Laozi's life took on elements of the mythological hero's biography.
Origin Late 17th century: from French biographie or modern Latin biographia, from medieval Greek, from bios 'life' + -graphia 'writing'. Rhymes autobiography, bibliography, cardiography, cartography, chirography, choreography, chromatography, cinematography, cosmography, cryptography, demography, discography, filmography, geography, hagiography, historiography, hydrography, iconography, lexicography, lithography, oceanography, orthography, palaeography (US paleography), photography, radiography, reprography, stenography, topography, typography |