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So You've Been Asked to Submit a Biography

In a library, the word biography refers both to a kind of book and to a section where books of that kind are found. Each biography tells the story of a real person's life. A biography may be about someone who lived long ago, recently, or even someone who is still living, though in the last case it must necessarily be incomplete. The term autobiography refers to a biography written by the person it's about. Autobiographies are of course also necessarily incomplete.

Sometimes biographies are significantly shorter than a book—something anyone who's been asked to submit a biography for, say, a conference or a community newsletter will be glad to know. Often the word in these contexts is shortened to bio , a term that can be both a synonym of biography and a term for what is actually a biographical sketch: a brief description of a person's life. These kinds of biographies—bios—vary, but many times they are only a few sentences long. Looking at bios that have been used in the same context can be a useful guide in determining what to put in your own.

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Word History

Late Greek biographia , from Greek bi- + -graphia -graphy

1665, in the meaning defined at sense 2

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“Biography.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary , Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/biography. Accessed 7 Apr. 2024.

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How To Use Biography In A Sentence

• Stark gave Izzard the warmest of welcomes and seems to have put no obstacle in the way of a biography . 0 0
• a biography ...appreciative and yet judicial in purpose 0 0
• Moceanu has written an autobiography , had book signings and cashed in on corporate and commercial appearances. 0 0
• A short autobiography is prefixed to the 1827 edition of Juvenal. 0 0
• In closing, I would like to reflect upon what I think was the most disturbing, and unnoticed, subtheme of Van Sant's film biography of Harvey Milk. Archive 2009-01-01 0 0

• The tone of Nicholls' biography is dispassionately respectful, admiring even. 0 0
• I had just published my autobiography , which met with universal disapproval. Times, Sunday Times 0 0
• What drove him remains a mystery in a book that is more hagiography than biography . Times, Sunday Times 0 0
• There are further parallels to be drawn within this illusory cat 's cradle of fiction, memoir and biography . Times, Sunday Times 0 0
• Therefore, saccharorrhea patient wants the reality treatment this question certainly not to want to readily believe some not symbol actual suitable biography . 0 0
• I asked the guy who would bowdlerize Larry Niven if given the chance this question: "If someone was writing the biography of your life, would you want it to have a sex scene? Bowdlerized 0 0
• On the downside, this dependency on biography and history means that sometimes the tales do not stand in their own right. 0 0
• In this rather archaically written biography , marred by ornate, stilted language and the author's reliance on and citation of endlessly extended passages from his great-great-grandfather's autobiography , James Mellon struggles mightily but fails to make his readers care much for or about Thomas Mellon. Banking On the Future 0 0
• A ghosted autobiography requires a deep bond between sportsman and journalist. Times, Sunday Times 0 0
• Each character is given a home instance, personalized to their biography choices, located in their racial capital - Hoelbrak for the norn, the Grove for the sylvari, and so forth. 0 0
• In his biography Alec Guinness: The Unknown, Garry O'Connor reveals that Guinness was arrested and fined 10 guineas for a homosexual act in a public lavatory in Liverpool in 1946. 0 0
• How grateful and enlightened he must be to have that cleared up: one wouldn't want a thicko to write one's autobiography . 0 0
• Well, you can wait for the autobiography or you can come with me to shop for formalwear. 0 0
• Maraniss's balanced biography is not a "pathography," obsessive about its subject's defects. Rough Rider In Green Bay 0 0
• They're rerunning a two-part ‘ Biography for Kids’ that Harry did, visiting the set and interviewing the folks behind, in and under the Muppets. 0 0
• Why nobody has ever written a biography of David is beyond me. 0 0
• There is biography , hagiography and social, religious and political history. Times, Sunday Times 0 0
• This is the first official biography of her and it is introduced by her daughter. 0 0
• This turns biography into hagiography: the subject isn't a mere artist working through his aesthetic ideas, he's Christ among the doubters and Pharisees. 0 0
• One final irony: In 1950, at age 82, Millikan published his Autobiography , with Chapter 9 entitled simply "The Experimental Proof of the Existence of the Photon--Einstein's Photoelectric Equation. 0 0
• A profile is a collection of information about the user, typically including a short biography and contextually appropriate facts. 0 0
• A good biography is weakened by not giving the major biographical facts due prominence. 0 0
• Keynes would have interpreted this as an extreme outbreak of liquidity-preference, says Paul Davidson, whose biography of the master has just been republished with a new afterword. 0 0
• His biography is eminently sensible on a subject about which much high-flown transcendental nonsense has been written. 0 0
• Her mother, Jackiey, the daughter of a market trader, was described in her daughter's autobiography as a petty thief and "clipper" - a woman who pretends to be a prostitute but runs off with the money instead. DUFF & NONSENSE! 0 0
• As he accepts, it would have been dishonest to write an autobiography without touching on this subject. Times, Sunday Times 0 0
• The biography is an attempt to uncover the inner man. 0 0
• The biography is a useful corrective to the myths that have grown up around this man. 0 0
• I have some time to spare and would like to sit down and read my copy of the biography of Berlioz. 0 0
• What I discovered in Bruce Hindmarsh's learned biography was that Newton became a convert not because of his disgust for the slave trade, but because of his horror at the dissolute life he had led. 0 0
• Snow was an accomplished author as well, having published a biography of Anthony Trollope as well as several novels, including a whodunit. 0 0
• This new biography will revive interest in an eccentric and rare polymath of the last century. Times, Sunday Times 0 0
• His history is, he argued, "a biography of things, a filiation of objects, not as pictures of an exhibition, but as records of the process of their coming into existence. Trafficking Materials and Gendered Experimental Practices: Radium Research in Early 20th Century Vienna 0 0
• Derek Jarman's Caravaggio presents itself as a loose, poeticized biography of the famed Baroque painter Michelangelo de Caravaggio, but in fact Jarman appears to be using his subject as a gateway into ruminations on art, love, violence and religion. Caravaggio 0 0
• Publication of his biography was timed to coincide with his 70th birthday celebrations. 0 0
• They had met originally when Verrall was writing a biography of Cromwell for which William had done much of the research. 0 0
• The biggest surprise in this colourful biography is that its subject allowed it to be published. Times, Sunday Times 0 0
• After all, in her 1993 autobiography she disclosed one or two juicier titbits contained in the files, which she was allowed to see soon after the Wall came down. 0 0
• Her achievements are chronicled in a new biography out this week. 0 0
• It takes a bold writer to attempt a biography of one of the most recognized and cited of Restoration Englishmen. 0 0
• ANDREW MORTON, AUTHOR, "TOM CRUISE: AN UNAUTHORIZED BIOGRAPHY ": He could be in the position of what they call inspector general inside scientology. CNN Transcript Jan 17, 2008 0 0
• Unless you want to write a very long biography indeed, a measure of rapid movement is in most cases unavoidable. The Times Literary Supplement 0 0
• … reminds me of an image Deirdre Bair sketches in her biography of the game young Samuel used to play diving fearlessly from the tops of tall trees, crashing through branches to the ground. 2009 May 05 | NIGEL BEALE NOTA BENE BOOKS 0 0
• Between these two positions lies a range of literacy activity, such as personal autobiography , diaries, functional lists etc. 0 0
• Indeed there is probably more fiction in autobiography than there is autobiography in fiction. 0 0
• I don't want a biography of your old French wine - bibber. Flush of Gold 0 0
• Some companies have used "biodata" a mash-up of the words biography and data. How to Ace a Google Interview 0 0
• This is another very interesting part of the biography that is missing from the first print run. 0 0
• He also wrote several short biographies on early identities to be included in Dictionary of New Zealand Biography . 0 0
• While at the BlogWorld Expo in Las Vegas next week, I’ll be signing copies of my autobiography I’ll Do It Myself in which I intimately share living with cerebral palsy to show others that cp is not a death sentence, but rather a life sentence: Do It Myself Blog – Glenda Watson Hyatt » 2007 » November 0 0
• It is not everyday that you find an autobiography so disarmingly direct and candid. 0 0
• The thing about this biography is that it is not fair, it is unbalanced and it is biased, and it is what John Howard would call a ‘black armband biography ’. 0 0
• He saved his carfares and went without lunch until he had enough money to buy an encyclopedia of American biography - and then he did an unheard-of thing. 0 0
• Along the way he offers a sort of autobiography of his bibliomania, which takes him across New England and the rest of the country searching for old books. 0 0
• This highly condensed biography allows little room for analysis. 0 0
• The Guardian's Book Review has a review of his new biography of the grumpiest man in popular music, which advises you to snap it up quick before Van's solicitors run their toothcombs over it. 0 0
• There are elements of autobiography in these acute, erudite, elegant and amusing essays. Times, Sunday Times 0 0
• Matilda of Canossa had obsessed Maureen for the better part of the last two years, possessing her first when Maureen read the autobiography of the controversial countess, and then as she wrote her latest book in honor of this remarkable woman. The Poet Prince 0 0
• The story she unfolds is both biography and intellectual parable. Times, Sunday Times 0 0
• Film biography , a special film of genre with a long historic tradition, profound aesthetic particularity and stong vitality during the whole development of cinematics. 0 0
• A brief preface goes before the first part which provides a brief biography of Hugo Wolf including the forming and development of his peculiar style. 0 0
• This biography sometimes crosses the borderline between fact and fiction. 0 0
• ‘ Biography ’ scriptwriters churn out copy that is always simple, straightforward, and unrelievedly vanilla. 0 0
• Prepare a two-line biography detailing your skills with a contact number. 0 0
• Jack . Welch Autobiography & gt ; praised as " the Holy Bible of CEO ". 0 0
• He said he would, but there were three more volumes of his biography and accompanying document collections to complete first. Times, Sunday Times 0 0
• The letters were used as source material in this new biography . 0 0
• The third was a lengthy and dully-written biography of a late nineteenth-century general. 0 0
• And he found time to write two volumes of autobiography in which he could give full vent to his views on theatre. Times, Sunday Times 0 0
• Adams' biography confesses to concentrating less on the later years and this deprives the book of a conclusive judgment about its subject. 0 0
• Sarah Bradford is right to spend two-thirds of her quiet, lucid biography on the years before the assassination. 0 0
• While going through such varied sources, it is a great joy when one finds an autobiography or a biography or an unpublished piece of writing. 0 0
• She wrote in her autobiography that The Manchurian Candidate was ‘a dynamite film,’ though she had worried about working with Frank Sinatra. 0 0
• Ironically, it is only possible to write a cultural biography of this horse, insofar as it is possible, because of his multiply commodified status. 0 0
• Mandelstam's attitude to the interrelation of biography and poetic persona was complex. The Times Literary Supplement 0 0
• The sleeve notes include a short biography of the performers on this recording. 0 0
• The major events of Woodman's biography have clearly marked her artistic growth. 0 0
• The trailer actually undersells the film, while the storyboards and biography make for intriguing viewing. 0 0
• It does Mr. Chernow no disservice to regard his biography as a culmination of a long biographical tradition that has divested Washington of his marmoreal armor. The Life of the Lives 0 0
• Larkin had his diaries destroyed, Hardy burnt all his personal papers, then got his second wife to put her name to the biography he had actually written himself. 0 0
• Maybe we could even rush out a quickie biography , explaining to the masses the meaning of Mr. Greenspan's life and work. 0 0
• The Wonder edition includes an informative biography and a discography of his recordings. 0 0
• Autobiography used to be the preserve of hammy actors, gammy lieutenant commanders and superannuated hangers-on to the Bloomsbury Group. 0 0
• It is a famously unclassifiable book, part cultural criticism, part autobiography , mixing participant ethnography with literary analysis. The Times Literary Supplement 0 0
• In her autobiography she said curiosity had made her take the job, but 60 years on she admits she failed to let herself see the atrociousness of the regime she worked for. 0 0
• Life, as every biography and obit I have ever read confirms, is what happens when you are making other plans. 0 0
• I think it's like the whole history of Italian art in the biography of one person. A TALE OF FOUR HOUSES: Opera at Covent Garden, La Scala, Vienna and the Met since 1945 0 0
• Sylvia Plath and the Theatre of Mourning continues this tense push-pull struggle with biography throughout its pages. 0 0
• I thought, 'Doing this autobiography is more serious than I thought. With No Ax to Grind 0 0
• Through bursts of laughter he told me that the first extracts of the new biography about Jack have finally been landing on editors' desks. 0 0
• Despite honourable exceptions, the ubiquitous dramatised biography has probably been the most accident-prone arts genre. Times, Sunday Times 0 0
• Beyond the headlines inspired by his recent autobiography , it is easy to recognise just how the modern game has transformed his life. Times, Sunday Times 0 0
• These texts, written in the style of 1980s bonkbuster novels but with the content of newsy autobiography , could change the face of publishing. Bonk-bios, the perfect beach books 0 0
• The fifth was a biography of a famous writer, which Boy read twice with great fascination. 0 0
• The result of her research is a new biography , Perdita: The Life of Mary Robinson, which includes much unpublished material. 0 0
• Earlier over lunch I had been three pages into a biography of the man who invented Freon when the article suddenly made no sense at all - instead of freon, it was now discussing Medieval paint technology. 0 0
• As well as being erudite, witty and utterly shameless, his autobiography shows he was capable of great mercy. Times, Sunday Times 0 0
• These and other insights into a distinguished writer 's life are reason enough to read this chronological autobiography . Times, Sunday Times 0 0
• But in light of his political biography there can be no doubt of his preparedness to assume a ministerial office in a Union-led government. 0 0
• He is engaged on a biography of his father. 0 0
• About 70,000 copies of the biography were published but it was soon suppressed by the German government. Times, Sunday Times 0 0
• Critics regularly mutter about how hard it is to write literary biography in the 21st century. Times, Sunday Times 0 0
• She wrote the first Kerouac biography in 1973. 0 0
• Record in my Notes to this Manuscript, but except as subsidiary and elucidative of the Text, I put no value on such: express Biography of me, I had really rather that there/[Page xviii]/should be none. New Letters and Memorials of Jane Welsh Carlyle 0 0
• Sandrart's story of Caravaggio's death is easily interpreted as an apologue rather than as biography because there is so little ground to confuse moral and factual truths. 0 0
• It is a great new form of literature: biography of a few months in one country. Times, Sunday Times 0 0
• I’m enjoying reading Carl Sandburg’s biography on Abraham Lincoln — it’s great writing, it’s informative, and I feel good after reading a chapter or two. 0 0
• This biography makes it abundantly clear. Times, Sunday Times 0 0
• George is the survivor, the cat with nine lives, and he has an autobiography for every one of them. 0 0
• The script used is Potter's own condensed and Americanised version of the BBC's, written, according to Humphrey Carpenter's fine biography , in 1990. 0 0
• He re-read his father's autobiography and realised they shared many character traits. 0 0
• This autobiography will appeal most to those interested in the history of the Chattahoochee Valley. 0 0
• It contains a potted biography , stressing the adulation and the good works. Times, Sunday Times 0 0
• This new biography contains a wealth of previously unpublished material. 0 0
• But I managed to correct and amplify an account of his biography and works sufficiently to provide a decent introduction to that edition. The Times Literary Supplement 0 0
• In four volumes of autobiography and three books of journals he distilled much of the flavour of each decade of a remarkable century. 0 0
• Both deeper and wider than a biography , the book documents and vivifies events that still affect us today. 0 0
• A first-rate biography might have reminded the art world of his unique eloquence. 0 0
• In The Name is not a Pilger biography but an account of Pilger's television work with which the journalist himself co-operated. 0 0
• Certainly this critique of autobiography has validity; how many autobiographers are truly honest even with themselves, let alone with their readers, about themselves in narrative? 0 0
• It's not a biography (although a brief bio of Powell is included). 0 0
• V. Johnston, '' Pitirim A. Sorokin an Intelellectual Biography '' (1995) * [[Pitirim Sorokin]] (1889-1968), Russian-American macrosociology; '' Social and Cultural Dynamics '' (4 vol., Conservapedia - Recent changes [en] 0 0
• Over the centuries, Laozi's life took on elements of the mythological hero's biography . 0 0
• So it is with biography and particularly royal biography , a genre that does not suffer from publishing neglect. The Times Literary Supplement 0 0
• He is currently trying to give up smoking as a full-time displacement activity while working on a literary biography . Times, Sunday Times 0 0
• Yet men dominate in this field also, even in fiction, poetry, literary biography . 0 0
• This is in essence a short and rather conventional biography which breaks no new ground but is a good summary of current knowledge. 0 0
• His life is chronicled in a new biography published last week. 0 0
• With an affectionate and admiring smile on his own face, he has written an unaffected biography of an unaffected great man. 0 0
• Marje now admits that her carefully nurtured image has been torn apart by revelations from a new biography . 0 0
• His official NASA biography listed a diverse number of hobbies -- oil painting, woodworking, motorcycling, and racquetball, to name a few. Jim Noles: Twenty-Five Years Ago, We Lost More Than a Space Shuttle 0 0
• After Lacroix, Man Ray spent about six years with the famed Parisian demi-mondaine Kiki de Montparnasse, to whom he devoted an entire chapter in his autobiography . 0 0
• In simplest terms, he is a computer security celebrity junketeer, a highly specialized occupation somewhat obscured by an official biography bulging with professional-strength acronyms. 0 0
• As he wrote in his autobiography : 'I serve as a blank screen on which people of vastly different political stripes project their own views. Times, Sunday Times 0 0
• The biography explains the circumstances surrounding her fall from grace. 0 0
• Review: Biography : Polo reminted: A study that strips away the myths to let us see the great Venetian traveller afresh delights Kevin Rushby: Marco Polo: From Venice to Xanadu by Laurence Bergreen 448pp, Quercus, pounds 19.99 Marco Polo: From Venice to Xanadu, by Laurence Bergreen 0 0
• Still, autobiography may be the land of the invented past but, when the person is interesting enough and the life is large enough, the compensations are considerable. 0 0
• The eminent historian Arthur Schlesinger Jr. has sometimes been labeled a hagiographer for the Camelot chords he struck, but A Thousand Days is an intricate and serious narrative biography with sweeping historical themes and incisive drypoint character sketches. American Sketches 0 0
• Mr. Scheuer is out to present something perhaps slightly different from a biography — more a guide to understanding Osama bin Laden, with biographic features included, because he sees bin Laden as America's central adversary. America's Most Wanted 0 0
• Her book is not only a biography , but the detailed chronicle of a social milieu. The Times Literary Supplement 0 0
• There is a story told in his otherwise unrevealing autobiography which nicely illuminates the practical side of this pursuit of goodness. 0 0
• This new biography is the first to consider fully the writer's gestalt. 0 0
• Biography fleshes out the daily realities of living as aliens in your own land and provides insight into indigenous history over the entire 20th century. 0 0
• Known as a master of tokiwazu bushi, a Japanese song featured in Kabuki plays, she published her autobiography two years ago. Autopsy Disclosed 0 0
• He said he'd been working hard recently on his autobiography , which was now half finished. 0 0
• This accessible mini- biography rejects these simplicities and presents a much more rounded account. 0 0
• Even European history of the period was an official or semi-official biography of the state. 0 0
• He was an occasional obituarist for The Independent and The Guardian and a contributor to the New Dictionary of National Biography . 0 0
• In his autobiography , he explains in detail why it did not become a worldwide business. 0 0
• The library also has a wide range of titles on gardening, cookery, history, computers, biography and travel. 0 0
• In his Autobiography he reports a personal experience of racial harassment. 0 0
• Whilst it could be argued that it is po-faced to talk about truth in the biography of a fictional character, the counter-argument is that the constant toying with fiction and fact is ultimately frustrating. 0 0
• In ways that this biography seems not entirely to appreciate, Kennan's far-sighted opposition to American over-militarisation makes his personal career history less gripping than his legacy. 0 0
• In his autobiography , King mentioned that when he "chivved" someone (interesting that the slang hasn't changed), he was always careful to draw the blade downwards across the face, never upwards or sideways, so as not to slash a major artery. A Night With Annie Nightingale; Mary Anne's Send Off Show; Bandits of the Blitz; Jamie Cullum 0 0
• He was reading the Russell autobiography in order to steady himself for the selection procedure. 0 0
• Burderop farmer Charles W Whatley recalls his schooldays at Swindon High School in his autobiography Farming And Foxhunting published c1940, where Mr Snell had the reputation of pushing on the smart and forward boys. Undefined 0 0
• I was intrigued to read in your autobiography that your relationship with your parents was starchy and formal, while you were close to your grandmother. 0 0
• Also archaeologists, the Gears apply over thirty years of research with their backgrounds in biblical archaeology, religious studies, Greek, and Latin, to reveal a new and relatively unknown and historically unsupported biography of Jesus Christ, or Yeshua. “The Betrayal: The Lost Life of Jesus” by Kathleen O’Neal Gear and W. Michael Gear (Forge, 2008) « The BookBanter Blog 0 0
• Tebow's autobiography , audaciously written when he was merely a 23-year-old second-string quarterback most critics called a miscast running back, came out in June. USATODAY.com News 0 0
• In her autobiography , she describes the song's genesis late one night in a Dublin bar. 0 0
• It makes one wonder how much of the speech is true and how much is false, based on Stalin's tendency toward revisionism of his revolutionary biography . 0 0
• Hence, the new image was done on the basis of Don Bosco's little biography of the boy Saint as well as eyewitness accounts gathered for the process of Canonisation . 0 0
• Greenblatt instead wants to write, and most consumers of literary biography want to read, a story extraordinary and uplifting. 0 0
• The first two installments of a projected seven-volume biography of one of the portlier Founding Fathers. Cover to Cover 0 0
• According to his biography , he wrote and recorded parts of this album while living in the studio for two months. 0 0
• Rowlandson intersperses her autobiography with numerous quotations from the Bible. 0 0
• It's been promoted as the biography that lays bare the truth behind the legend. 0 0
• But Wyler is barely more visible in his biography than in his films. 0 0
• For now Ricky is busy attending book signings around the country to promote his autobiography Ricky. 0 0
• In some ways, this biography should be applauded for its total absence of the prurient interest so common to most of its peers. 0 0
• As it cools, write another autobiography . The Sun 0 0
• Drummund, who was also a biographer for Billy Graham, wrote an excellent biography on Finney which deals with this. 0 0
• Her book is a mesh of biography and a wider history of the geisha. 0 0
• One might have thought such an unlikely colossus of Australian political history would have encouraged a few level-headed intellectuals and journalists to write a serious biography . 0 0
• His autobiography is set to become a massive hit - but it seems not even the England captain can topple Harry Potter from top spot. 0 0
• In deeply unpropitious times, the Oxford Dictionary of National Biography has refreshed and fortified our sense of what can still be meant by the collective endeavour of ‘scholarship’. 0 0
• ANDREW MORTON, AUTHOR, "DIANA: HER TRUE STORY": Well, I was writing a biography of Diana, and we had a mutual friend called James Coldhurst (ph). CNN Transcript Mar 10, 2004 0 0
• Further, Langdon deems the sculpture — which depicts St. Teresa of Avila in spiritual ecstasy, based on a description in her autobiography — as pornographic, as it supposedly depicts the saint “on her back in the throes of a toe-curling orgasm.” Ron Howard, Angry & Demeaning? 0 0
• While trying to help starving villagers, Yunus met a 21-year-old woman named Sufia Begum, who was burdened by a tiny yet crushing debt, Yunus recalled in his autobiography , "Banker to the Poor. 0 0
• I, Dreyfus takes the form of its eponymous hero's autobiography , penned while in prison. 0 0
• The thesis is divided into five parts as follows:"Introduction"presents a brief biography of Lyman Frank Baum and a brief introduction to The Wonderful Wizard of Oz. 0 0
• IT was supposed to be his grand comeback - a new album and autobiography out on consecutive days after months of hard work. The Sun 0 0

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A personal biography, often shortened to just my self Biography, is a brief statement summarizing your skills and achievements. You can write a bio to differentiate yourself from other candidates, gain new clients, or connect with social media followers. Learning how to write a biography about yourself can help you build your brand and market yourself effectively. 

In this article, we are going to discuss biography with steps, tips, and strategies to help you write how to write a biography about yourself. 

Before writing, how to write a biography of yourself. First, we have to know what a personal biography is.

What is a personal biography?

A personal biography is a brief introduction summarizing your experience, references, education, and personal or professional achievements. This can help you convey your brand and show others what makes you unique. You can use your profile as a marketing tool when applying for jobs, attracting potential clients, or encouraging people to follow you on social media.

A personal biography often conveys the purpose or goal of writing the biography, such as talking to a client or getting a job. 

In your biography, you can include details about your personal or professional achievements, such as awards you’ve won or positive feedback you’ve received from customers. You may choose to discuss your personal or professional background in your biography, such as your current position, years of experience in the industry, or your motivation for pursuing your career path. A personal biography typically mentions your education and other qualifications, such as internships, certifications, or professional development training.

What to include in a personal bio?

Here are some of the elements a personal bio might include:

• Name : [Your Name]
• Profession : [Your Job Title/Role]
• Experience : Briefly outline your relevant professional experience.
• Accomplishments : Highlight any notable achievements or milestones in your career.
• Skills : List key skills or areas of expertise relevant to your profession.
• Interests : Mention any hobbies or interests that showcase your personality outside of work.
• Unique Qualities : Highlight any unique traits or experiences that set you apart.
• Education : Include your educational background if relevant.
• Contact Information : Provide a way for people to contact you if they want to connect or collaborate.

Where To Show Personal Bio 

Many people use their biography when looking for a job to explain to the hiring manager why they are the ideal candidate for the job. You can also use your biography in other ways. Some places you can post your biography include: 

• Professional networking sites 
• Social media accounts 
• Professional or personal websites 
• Other places to describe your credentials, such as the biography of a speaker at an industry conference.

How to Write a Biography About Yourself 

When you think you have to do something for your better career you must be alert about how to write a biography about yourself. Now I will share with all of you some significant strategies on how to write a biography about myself. 

1. Introduce yourself 

If you think about how to write a biography about yourself let’s start your bio with a brief introduction that describes who you are. The first sentence might include your name, followed by some details you want to highlight, such as your education, certifications, or achievements. Include other relevant details, such as your job title, industry experience, and job duties. After a strong introduction, summarize your passions and values. You might consider the following areas when writing your introduction.

2. Keep it short 

The length of your biography can vary depending on the focus and goals. On your social media site, you can write a brief professional biography of two or three sentences. Other bios, such as a website bio, can be several paragraphs long. No matter where you plan to display your biography, keep it short to grab readers’ attention and encourage them to learn more about you or connect with you.

3. Select a point to see 

In an individual bio, you’ll be able to either type in a first-person or third-person point of view. First-person dialect employs words like “I,” “we” and “me” to depict yourself. It’s a great thought to compose within the first person if you need to form a personal connection with your gathering of people. For this case, you will select a first-person bio on the off chance that you are an independent realistic originator pointing to put through with clients by depicting your design skills and past ventures. 

A third-person bio employs your favored pronouns to supply data approximately to you. It’s useful to utilize the third individual after you need to form a formal bio or illustrate your mastery. Another advantage of a third-person bio is that it permits you to incorporate your full title, which can be supportive of look search engine optimization (SEO). 

4. Write Strategically 

Set yourself apart from others by writing a compelling story that others can read to learn more about you. Include personal stories that inspired you to pursue your current career or influenced your career goals. These anecdotes can give readers a personal understanding of your interest in the field, your passions, and your core values. Here are some questions you can consider to help write a good biography: 

• Who is your target audience? 
• What do you want them to learn from your biography? 

5. Include your contact information 

Your profile is the first step to connecting with others. The contact information section can encourage readers to contact you because it makes you seem open and approachable. Place your contact information at the bottom of your biography in an easy-to-see location. 

This information may include: 

• Your professional email address 
• Links to your contact page 
• Links to your professional social media profiles

6. Create a unique profile for each location 

Many facial expressions of a man. 

Search engines value diversity. So if you paste the same bio on every website, chances are only one of them will appear on the first page of your search results (other than that very few people will look).

7. Links to examples of your work 

The goal of your biography is to show who you are and what you’ve done, but it cannot fully achieve that goal unless it also includes Links to examples of your best work. 

For each link, make sure you use relevant anchor text (the blue words you click on). The words you use should tell readers what will happen when they click the link. For example, it’s better to say: 

Do you have a good online reputation? Start your analysis 

“He writes a guide to online reputation” 

instead of 

“To see what he writes about how a person’s online reputation affects their career, click here. 

Tim Lamborghini is an expert at promoting their work. You can see their involvement with books, podcasts, and personal and professional achievements in her bio.

8. Regularly update your profile 

You are constantly learning new skills and achieving new goals in your career. Keeping these achievements to yourself will only limit your opportunities. 

Instead, you should take a few minutes to update your various profiles every time you go through a major life event. This way, your biography will always accurately reflect who you are and what you have to offer, allowing you to gain better exposure, gain the respect of your peers, and ultimately be recruited.

9. Tell jokes 

Create some jokes when you will figure out how to write a biography about yourself. Another way to communicate with your audience is to make them laugh. While you need to maintain a professional tone throughout the rest of your biography, it’s a good idea to add a humorous note at the beginning or end. 

As long as it’s relevant to your target audience, a funny story or joke in your biography can make a lasting impression on readers. 

10. Match the word count to the platform 

While you analyze how to write a biography about yourself you should concern yourself with the word limit of the biography. The time it takes to write your biography is up to you unless you’re filling out the biography section of your profile and are only allowed a certain number of words. However, you should keep in mind your background and what your audience is looking for when deciding how much to write. 

For example, people reading a biography on a job site may be screening many candidates, so it’s best to keep the biography on these sites short, between 300 and 500 words. Otherwise, readers may be tempted to ignore them. 

For a biography on your website, a longer biography (between 1500 and 2000) is often better because you can include more details. Search engines also prefer longer bios, so they often rank higher in search results, making your bio more visible.

Conclusion 

One important thing that most people do not pay enough attention to when applying for a job is their “personal history”. Perhaps a lack of time and a general lack of awareness of the importance of personal biographies has led candidates to create dry and boring personal biographies that don’t deliver the value they deserve. To pass difficult technical interviews in different companies, in addition to thorough preparation, creating and presenting the best personal biography is extremely important. 

This article will show you how to write a biography about yourself and how to create the best personal biography to increase your chances of making a good impression and landing your dream job.

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As a blogger or content marketer, you’re spreading your content across the internet to build your name as a thought leader and to drive traffic back to your (or your client’s) website.

One of the best ways to do this is via a strong biography, where sites will often allow you to also link back to somewhere. But you need to get their interest to learn more, so you need a strong one-line biography as most sites will only allow a short biography.

Here’s how you write a strong one-line biography for your blog author page:

Write in 3rd person

Highlight your role/profession.

• Keep it short

Include a call to action

Biographies should be written in third person. Instead of “I am a serial entrepreneur…” you should write “John is a serial entrepreneur…”

Some publications may have different guidelines, in which case you should follow them, but as a general guideline always write your bio in 3rd person.

Your bio should tell readers who you are and what you do, so be sure to highlight your role or profession.

“John is a serial entrepreneur and digital marketing veteran who…”

This gives people more information about you, why you are qualified to be talking about the topic you are bylined on, and helps them decide if they want to click your link to learn more.

Don’t be afraid to brag a little bit! In our world of fake humility, finding someone who is willing to state what they’ve done can be refreshing and encourage them to click to learn more about you.

Don’t overdo it though. A quick interesting fact is usually more than enough to get them interested.

For example:

“John is a serial entrepreneur and digital marketing leader who via his company Credo has generated over a quarter billion dollars in leads for agencies since 2015.”

The lead value number is a brag, but it’s also true and lets people know that John knows what he’s doing.

Have some fun!

In today’s social media world, people want to connect with the person behind the account.

So don’t be afraid to use emojis or a bit of humor.

This advice does not carry over to a professional website like LinkedIn where people are more professional and you should present your best face to the world.

Keep it short, but readable

If you’re required to keep your biography to just one sentence, you have just 15 to 20 words on average to get your point across. You need to be succinct and make every word count.

As such, remove superlatives and flowery language that could make it harder to read. This is not the place to be cute or show off – it’s the place to communicate effectively.

Include a backlink/hyperlink

Most websites where you publish will allow you to link back to a site of your choice from your biography. Don’t be spammy and try to link back to multiple places – link to a place where people can find out more about you or your company easily.

Finally, include a call to action (CTA) if you have enough space and can work it in. At minimum, make sure you follow the above advice and include a hyperlink back to your main website where people can learn more about you or your business.

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Here are some examples of great bios.

Dan Martell (Instagram)

Dan Martell is a coach to software founders, an entrepreneur with 3 business exits, an award-winning angel investor, and a proud dad and husband.

How do we know this? Because he says so in his Instagram bio. Short and effective.

Kimberly Bryant

Kimberly Bryant is the founder of Black Girls Code , a company that “build[s] pathways for young women of color to embrace the current tech marketplace as builders and creators by introducing them to skills in computer programming and technology.” Here is her Twitter biography, which clearly states what she does and gives insight into who she is.

Chris Ducker

Chris Ducker is a UK-based entrepreneur who “helps midlife leaders and entrepreneurs build future proof businesses around their expertise” with his Youpreneur coaching program.

Pat Flynn is a serial entrepreneur, dad, and husband who also has a physical product and a Pokemon card side hustle with over 100,000 YouTube subscribers. Here’s his Instagram profile:

Rand Fishkin

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From time to time, nonfiction authors become so captivated by a particular figure from either the present or the past, that they feel compelled to write an entire book about their life. Whether casting them as heroes or villains, there is an interesting quality in their humanity that compels these authors to revisit their life paths and write their story.

However, portraying someone’s life on paper in a comprehensive and engaging way requires solid preparation. If you’re looking to write a biography yourself, in this post we’ll share a step-by-step blueprint that you can follow. 

How to write a biography: 

1. Seek permission when possible 

2. research your subject thoroughly, 3. do interviews and visit locations, 4. organize your findings, 5. identify a central thesis, 6. write it using narrative elements, 7. get feedback and polish the text.

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While you technically don’t need permission to write about public figures (or deceased ones), that doesn't guarantee their legal team won't pursue legal action against you. Author Kitty Kelley was sued by Frank Sinatra before she even started to write His Way , a biography that paints Ol Blue Eyes in a controversial light. (Kelley ended up winning the lawsuit, however).  

Whenever feasible, advise the subject’s representatives of your intentions. If all goes according to plan, you’ll get a green light to proceed, or potentially an offer to collaborate. It's a matter of common sense; if someone were to write a book about you, you would likely want to know about it well prior to publication. So, make a sincere effort to reach out to their PR staff to negotiate an agreement or at least a mutual understanding of the scope of your project. 

At the same time, make sure that you still retain editorial control over the project, and not end up writing a puff piece that treats its protagonist like a saint or hero. No biography can ever be entirely objective, but you should always strive for a portrayal that closely aligns with facts and reality.

If you can’t get an answer from your subject, or you’re asked not to proceed forward, you can still accept the potential repercussions and write an unauthorized biography . The “rebellious act” of publishing without consent indeed makes for great marketing, though it’ll likely bring more headaches with it too. 

✋ Please note that, like other nonfiction books, if you intend to release your biography with a publishing house , you can put together a book proposal to send to them before you even write the book. If they like it enough, they might pay you an advance to write it.  

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Once you’ve settled (or not) the permission part, it’s time to dive deep into your character’s story.  

Deep and thorough research skills are the cornerstone of every biographer worth their salt. To paint a vivid and accurate portrait of someone's life, you’ll have to gather qualitative information from a wide range of reliable sources. 

Start with the information already available, from books on your subject to archival documents, then collect new ones firsthand by interviewing people or traveling to locations. 

Browse the web and library archives

Put your researcher hat on and start consuming any piece on your subject you can find, from their Wikipedia page to news articles, interviews, TV and radio appearances, YouTube videos, podcasts, books, magazines, and any other media outlets they may have been featured in. 

Establish a system to orderly collect the information you find 一 even seemingly insignificant details can prove valuable during the writing process, so be sure to save them. 

Depending on their era, you may find most of the information readily available online, or you may need to search through university libraries for older references. 

For his landmark biography of Alexander Hamilton, Ron Chernow spent untold hours at Columbia University’s library , reading through the Hamilton family papers, visiting the New York Historical Society, as well as interviewing the archivist of the New York Stock Exchange, and so on. The research process took years, but it certainly paid off. Chernow discovered that Hamilton created the first five securities originally traded on Wall Street. This finding, among others, revealed his significant contributions to shaping the current American financial and political systems, a legacy previously often overshadowed by other founding fathers. Today Alexander Hamilton is one of the best-selling biographies of all time, and it has become a cultural phenomenon with its own dedicated musical. 

Besides reading documents about your subject, research can help you understand the world that your subject lived in. 

Try to understand their time and social environment

Many biographies show how their protagonists have had a profound impact on society through their philosophical, artistic, or scientific contributions. But at the same time, it’s worth it as a biographer to make an effort to understand how their societal and historical context influenced their life’s path and work.

An interesting example is Stephen Greenblatt’s Will in the World . Finding himself limited by a lack of verified detail surrounding William Shakespeare's personal life, Greenblatt, instead, employs literary interpretation and imaginative reenactments to transport readers back to the Elizabethan era. The result is a vivid (though speculative) depiction of the playwright's life, enriching our understanding of his world.

Many readers enjoy biographies that transport them to a time and place, so exploring a historical period through the lens of a character can be entertaining in its own right. The Diary of Samuel Pepys became a classic not because people were enthralled by his life as an administrator, but rather from his meticulous and vivid documentation of everyday existence during the Restoration period.

Once you’ve gotten your hands on as many secondary sources as you can find, you’ll want to go hunting for stories first-hand from people who are (or were) close to your subject.

With all the material you’ve been through, by now you should already have a pretty good picture of your protagonist. But you’ll surely have some curiosities and missing dots in their character arc to figure out, which you can only get by interviewing primary sources.

Interview friends and associates

This part is more relevant if your subject is contemporary, and you can actually meet up or call with relatives, friends, colleagues, business partners, neighbors, or any other person related to them. 

In writing the popular biography of Steve Jobs, Walter Isaacson interviewed more than one hundred people, including Jobs’s family, colleagues, former college mates, business rivals, and the man himself.

🔍 Read other biographies to get a sense of what makes a great one. Check out our list of the 30 best biographies of all time , or take our 30-second quiz below for tips on which one you should read next. 

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When you conduct your interviews, make sure to record them with high quality audio you can revisit later. Then use tools like Otter.ai or Descript to transcribe them 一 it’ll save you countless hours. 

You can approach the interview with a specific set of questions, or follow your curiosity blindly, trying to uncover revealing stories and anecdotes about your subject. Whatever your method, author and biography editor Tom Bromley suggests that every interviewer arrives prepared, "Show that you’ve done your work. This will help to put the interviewee at ease, and get their best answers.” 

Bromley also places emphasis on the order in which you conduct interviews. “You may want to interview different members of the family or friends first, to get their perspective on something, and then go directly to the main interviewee. You'll be able to use that knowledge to ask sharper, more specific questions.” 

Finally, consider how much time you have with each interviewee. If you only have a 30-minute phone call with an important person, make it count by asking directly the most pressing questions you have. And, if you find a reliable source who is also particularly willing to help, conduct several interviews and ask them, if appropriate, to write a foreword as part of the book’s front matter .

Sometimes an important part of the process is packing your bags, getting on a plane, and personally visiting significant places in your character’s journey.

Visit significant places in their life

A place, whether that’s a city, a rural house, or a bodhi tree, can carry a particular energy that you can only truly experience by being there. In putting the pieces together about someone’s life, it may be useful to go visit where they grew up, or where other significant events of their lives happened. It will be easier to imagine what they experienced, and better tell their story. 

In researching The Lost City of Z , author David Grann embarked on a trek through the Amazon, retracing the steps of British explorer Percy Fawcett. This led Grann to develop new theories about the circumstances surrounding the explorer's disappearance.

Hopefully, you won’t have to deal with jaguars and anacondas to better understand your subject’s environment, but try to walk into their shoes as much as possible. 

Once you’ve researched your character enough, it’s time to put together all the puzzle pieces you collected so far. 

Take the bulk of notes, media, and other documents you’ve collected, and start to give them some order and structure. A simple way to do this is by creating a timeline. 

Create a chronological timeline

It helps to organize your notes chronologically 一 from childhood to the senior years, line up the most significant events of your subject’s life, including dates, places, names and other relevant bits. 

You should be able to divide their life into distinct periods, each with their unique events and significance. Based on that, you can start drafting an outline of the narrative you want to create.  

Draft a story outline 

Since a biography entails writing about a person’s entire life, it will have a beginning, a middle, and an end. You can pick where you want to end the story, depending on how consequential the last years of your subject were. But the nature of the work will give you a starting character arc to work with. 

To outline the story then, you could turn to the popular Three-Act Structure , which divides the narrative in three main parts. In a nutshell, you’ll want to make sure to have the following:

• Act 1. Setup : Introduce the protagonist's background and the turning points that set them on a path to achieve a goal. 
• Act 2. Confrontation : Describe the challenges they encounter, both internal and external, and how they rise to them. Then..
• Act 3. Resolution : Reach a climactic point in their story in which they succeed (or fail), showing how they (and the world around them) have changed as a result. 

Only one question remains before you begin writing: what will be the main focus of your biography?

Think about why you’re so drawn to your subject to dedicate years of your life to recounting their own. What aspect of their life do you want to highlight? Is it their evil nature, artistic genius, or visionary mindset? And what evidence have you got to back that up? Find a central thesis or focus to weave as the main thread throughout your narrative. 

Or find a unique angle

If you don’t have a particular theme to explore, finding a distinct angle on your subject’s story can also help you distinguish your work from other biographies or existing works on the same subject.

Plenty of biographies have been published about The Beatles 一 many of which have different focuses and approaches: 

• Philip Norman's Shout is sometimes regarded as leaning more towards a pro-Lennon and anti-McCartney stance, offering insights into the band's inner dynamics. 
• Ian McDonald's Revolution in the Head closely examines their music track by track, shifting the focus back to McCartney as a primary creative force. 
• Craig Brown's One Two Three Four aims to capture their story through anecdotes, fan letters, diary entries, and interviews. 
• Mark Lewisohn's monumental three-volume biography, Tune In , stands as a testament to over a decade of meticulous research, chronicling every intricate detail of the Beatles' journey.

Finally, consider that biographies are often more than recounting the life of a person. Similar to how Dickens’ Great Expectations is not solely about a boy named Pip (but an examination and critique of Britain’s fickle, unforgiving class system), a biography should strive to illuminate a broader truth — be it social, political, or human — beyond the immediate subject of the book. 

Once you’ve identified your main focus or angle, it’s time to write a great story. 

While biographies are often highly informative, they do not have to be dry and purely expository in nature . You can play with storytelling elements to make it an engaging read. 

You could do that by thoroughly detailing the setting of the story , depicting the people involved in the story as fully-fledged characters , or using rising action and building to a climax when describing a particularly significant milestone of the subject’s life. 

One common way to make a biography interesting to read is starting on a strong foot…

Hook the reader from the start

Just because you're honoring your character's whole life doesn't mean you have to begin when they said their first word. Starting from the middle or end of their life can be more captivating as it introduces conflicts and stakes that shaped their journey.

When he wrote about Christopher McCandless in Into the Wild , author Jon Krakauer didn’t open his subject’s childhood and abusive family environment. Instead, the book begins with McCandless hitchhiking his way into the wilderness, and subsequently being discovered dead in an abandoned bus. By starting in medias res , Krakauer hooks the reader’s interest, before tracing back the causes and motivations that led McCandless to die alone in that bus in the first place.

You can bend the timeline to improve the reader’s reading experience throughout the rest of the story too…

Play with flashback 

While biographies tend to follow a chronological narrative, you can use flashbacks to tell brief stories or anecdotes when appropriate. For example, if you were telling the story of footballer Lionel Messi, before the climax of winning the World Cup with Argentina, you could recall when he was just 13 years old, giving an interview to a local newspaper, expressing his lifelong dream of playing for the national team. 

Used sparsely and intentionally, flashbacks can add more context to the story and keep the narrative interesting. Just like including dialogue does…

Reimagine conversations

Recreating conversations that your subject had with people around them is another effective way to color the story. Dialogue helps the reader imagine the story like a movie, providing a deeper sensory experience. 

One thing is trying to articulate the root of Steve Jobs’ obsession with product design, another would be to quote his father , teaching him how to build a fence when he was young: “You've got to make the back of the fence just as good looking as the front of the fence. Even though nobody will see it, you will know. And that will show that you're dedicated to making something perfect.”

Unlike memoirs and autobiographies, in which the author tells the story from their personal viewpoint and enjoys greater freedom to recall conversations, biographies require a commitment to facts. So, when recreating dialogue, try to quote directly from reliable sources like personal diaries, emails, and text messages. You could also use your interview scripts as an alternative to dialogue. As Tom Bromley suggests, “If you talk with a good amount of people, you can try to tell the story from their perspective, interweaving different segments and quoting the interviewees directly.”

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These are just some of the story elements you can use to make your biography more compelling. Once you’ve finished your manuscript, it’s a good idea to ask for feedback. 

If you’re going to self-publish your biography, you’ll have to polish it to professional standards. After leaving your work to rest for a while, look at it with fresh eyes and self-edit your manuscript eliminating passive voice, filler words, and redundant adverbs. 

Then, have a professional editor give you a general assessment. They’ll look at the structure and shape of your manuscript and tell you which parts need to be expanded on or cut. As someone who edited and commissioned several biographies, Tom Bromley points out that a professional “will look at the sources used and assess whether they back up the points made, or if more are needed. They would also look for context, and whether or not more background information is needed for the reader to understand the story fully. And they might check your facts, too.”  

In addition to structural editing, you may want to have someone copy-edit and proofread your work.

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Importantly, make sure to include a bibliography with a list of all the interviews, documents, and sources used in the writing process. You’ll have to compile it according to a manual of style, but you can easily create one by using tools like EasyBib . Once the text is nicely polished and typeset in your writing software , you can prepare for the publication process.  

In conclusion, by mixing storytelling elements with diligent research, you’ll be able to breathe life into a powerful biography that immerses readers in another individual’s life experience. Whether that’ll spark inspiration or controversy, remember you could have an important role in shaping their legacy 一 and that’s something not to take lightly. 

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Her father had also published his biography in 1988.

Stewart's biography of Rescorla, Heart of a Soldier.

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Soon after Percy Shelley's death, Mary Shelley determined to write his biography .

In 2006 his biography was included in the Oxford Dictionary of National Biography.

Hal Williams was working on a new biography of Blaine, tentatively titled James G.

The oldest biography of Nicolaus Copernicus was completed on 7 October 1588 by him.

The first biography of Berlioz, by Eugène de Mirecourt, was published during the composer's lifetime.

Victor Cousin published a biography in 1856, which was published in an English translation by Mary L.

This labor was used to good effect by Horatio Alger, who wrote Garfield's campaign biography in 1880.

Reed's biography , Elgar As I Knew Him (1936), records many details of Elgar's methods of composition.

As revealed both in the show and in his original biography , he has a long history with the Carnivàle.

Chalmers' eldest daughter Anne married William Hanna, who wrote a long biography of his father-in-law.

MacDonald's 1986 biography simply describes Giraud as "The great love of Byron's Eastern tour", and D.

Modern historians vary in their accounts of his condition: in her 2007 biography of Goring, Florene S.

Crapol's 2000 work, Muzzey's was the last full-scale biography of the man until Neil Rolde's 2006 book.

The most detailed biography is The Life and Works of Frances Browne by Patrick Bonar, self-published c.

In 2008, a miniseries was released based on the McCullough biography , featuring Paul Giamatti as Adams.

Critics have classified Maus as memoir, biography , history, fiction, autobiography, or a mix of genres.

Beaglehole refers to Georg's claims of originality as "not strictly truthful" in his biography of Cook.

According to a 1957 biography , the trial took only 5 minutes and the accused were denied legal counsel.

Stallman's 1968 Crane biography , several critics have explored the novel in terms of Christian allegory.

The authorized biography of Bob Homme called Look Up — Way Up is based on interviews conducted with Bob after he retired.

Najder's 1983 biography of Conrad, substantially revised in 2007, is regarded as an important work in Conrad scholarship.

Maus proved difficult to classify to a genre, and has been called biography , fiction, autobiography, history, and memoir.

His Rock and Roll Hall of Fame biography says he "was arguably the greatest instrumentalist in the history of rock music.

Berger later writes in his 1953 biography of Copland that the symphony "must be included among [Copland's] masterpieces".

He wrote his biography entitled Après la rafle (After the Roundup) which inspired the scenario of the movie The Round Up.

In 1982, freelance reporter Randy Shilts completed his first book: a biography of Milk, titled The Mayor of Castro Street.

Miller wrote in 1936 in what became the standard biography of Adams that Adams "controlled" Boston with his "trained mob".

Clara Noyes: Life of A Global Nursing Leader (2017) is a recent biography of Noyes, by her great-great nephew Roger Noyes.

Giovanni Baglione in his 1642 biography about Caravaggio reports that the first versions of both paintings were rejected:.

Crowley's former secretary Israel Regardie argued in his biography of Crowley, The Eye in the Triangle, that Aiwass was an unconscious expression of Crowley's personality.

Chen Shou, who wrote Li Hui's biography in the Records of the Three Kingdoms (Sanguozhi), appraised him as follows: "Li Hui was seen as brilliant in his will and actions..

A biography of Lambert published during his lifetime recounted that "it was within a year of this appointment that his bulk received the greatest and most rapid encrease".

Gibbs's nephew, Ralph Gibbs Van Name, a professor of physical chemistry at Yale, was unhappy with Rukeyser's biography , in part because of her lack of scientific training.

Today, Hannah, Countess of Rosebery is only referred to in biographies of her husband or better known Rothschild relations; no published biography of her has been written.

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Biography—the in a sentence

Biography—the is a variation of biography, below you can find example sentences for biography—the .

Through the rest of his career, Neville Chamberlain laboured to further the ideals of his cousin, and wrote his biography—the only book he ever wrote.

Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rise_of_Neville_Chamberlain

Synonyms for biography

Another way to better understand how a word can be used is to examine what synonyms it has, and how these synonyms can be used. For example, the word biography has the following synonyms: life , life story and life history .

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The example sentences for the word biography  that we present on this web site, stems from different official sources. For example one of our sources are articles on Wikipedia that are classified as at least Good articles . But we also use news articles, books and other generic texts to gather example sentences of how the word "biography" can be used in a sentence. To the right of every sentence you will find a link out arrow that sends you to the source of the sentence, where you can access the full text and context for the presented example sentence. This can be useful because some words can sometimes be difficult to understand with only a sentence for context, whereas the full article or text can help you gain insight on how to use the word "biography".

Bibliography in a Sentence  🔊

Definition of Bibliography

a list of the works referred to in a scholarly piece, usually at the end in the form of an appendix

Examples of Bibliography in a sentence

Most English teachers require you to have a bibliography with your research paper, giving proof of where you got all of your information.  🔊

When you create a bibliography for an academic paper, you have to list every book you used in your research.  🔊

There are four books listed in my paper’s bibliography, but I could not find the publishing date for one of them and I hope the teacher won’t mind.  🔊

I am trying to put together a bibliography for my research paper, but unfortunately I used Wikipedia and didn’t actually read too many books.  🔊

A bibliography is just a list of all the books you used for research in an academic work, so you can give everyone the credit they deserve.  🔊

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