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    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's life.

    Here's another biography of a scientist, this time Professor Stephen Hawking.

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    Who are biographies about?

    Often biographies are about people who are famous because of something they have done. Scientists, artists, sports stars or world leaders often have biograph

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    *English Language & Literature

    Along with single-author biographies, autobiographies, and memoirs, themed biographical compilations are common in print and/or online. The following are examples of the types of specialized biographical works that can be found at UVA Library:

    • The Biographical Dictionary of Literary Failure by C. D. Rose
      A complete compendium of failed writers from A to Z, which is both tragic and darkly hilarious. The Biographical Dictionary Of Literary Failure is essential reading for anyone who has ever wondered about all the writers who never made it onto the shelves of a bookshop, and all the great writers and their works, who remain unknown. Meet Ernst Bellmer, the bibliophage. For Bellmer, the aesthetic act was not complete unless his words, once committed to paper, were then eaten. Unfortunately for him, he died of ink poisoning, and left no trace of his life's work.
    • A Biographical Encyclopedia of Early Modern Englishwomen by Carole Levin (Editor); Anna Riehl Bertolet (Editor); Jo Eldridge Carney (Editor)
      From the exemplary to the notorious to the obscure, this comprehensive and innovative encyclopedia showcases the worthy women of early modern England. Poets, princesses, or pirates, the women of power and agency found in these pages are indeed
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