1. biography - Noun
2. biography - Verb
The written history of a person's life.
Biographical writings in general.
Source: Webster's dictionaryThe 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