biography

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1. biography - Noun

2. biography - Verb

Meaning

The written history of a person's life.

Biographical writings in general.

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The history of the world is but the biography of great men. Thomas Carlyle

When you read a biography remember that the truth is never fit for publication. George Bernard Shaw

In these days a man is nobody unless his biography is kept so far posted up that it may be ready for the national breakfast-table on the morning after his demise. Anthony Trollope

But for a few phrases from his letters and an odd line or two of his verse, the poet walks gagged through his own biography. John Updike

Biographies are but the clothes and buttons of the man. The biography of the man himself cannot be written. Mark Twain

There is properly no history only biography. Ralph Waldo Emerson

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