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How long did it take to research and write your biography of Ruth?
Critics regularly mutter about how hard it is to write literary biography in the 21st century.
About 70, copies of the biography were published but it was soon suppressed by the German government.
He wrote widely on subjects from biography and literature to management studies and the history of science.
He spent the rest of his life writing biographies.
But the genre of biography is looking somewhat exhausted.
She knew that a supreme method of doing this was through the biographies of real people.
It was an item that had failed to appear in the official biography published fo
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Meaning of biography in English
The strength of the notion of the cultural
biography, in my mind, is that it provides us with a way to escape from these preoccupations.
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The algorithm takes a set of earthly biographies as input and produces a set of improved resurrection biographies as output.
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However, an annotation of the essays, tillsammans with a more detailed
biography, would have increased its value for subsequent scholarship.
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This
biography presents a figure who deserves to be better known and appears to have been an unusually attractive and amiable character.
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This book purports to be a
biography, but the writer faced very considerable difficulties in researching it.
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This book permits the reader to see the many parallels between the biographies of the two lingua francas and the
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Exploring biographies
Watch: What is a biography?
A biography is a non-fiction text about someone's life.
Biographies are true pieces of text, based on fact, so biographers (the people who write biographies) have to do a lot of research. They use websites, letters, photographs, diaries and newspapers to help them.
Because biographies are written by someone else, they are written in the third person(//).
They are usually written in chronological order (the order in which events actually happened).
For example, watch this clip. It gives a biography of the scientist Marie Curie.
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Watch: Biography of Stephen Hawking
Even though biographers do lots of research, they can only guess at what it was like to be that person, or the thoughts and feelings the person had.
If the person they want to write about, or anyone who knew them, is still alive, biographers sometimes carry out an interview to ask lots of questions about the person'