biography

[baɪˈɑːɡrəfi]

Definition:
1. An account of the series of events making up a person's life.
2. The story of a person's life written by someone else; this type of writing.

Use 'biography' in a sentence:

1. He is now collecting material for a biography of Tao Yuanming.
2. It is not an unsympathetic biography, but Sir Edward has taken against it.
3. Such an attitude does no good to biography writing.
4. The sleeve notes include a short biography of the performers on this recording.
5. It is an authoritative biography.
6. This biography was written by a famous author.
7. He has written a speculative biography of Christopher Marlowe.
8. The biography shows him in a favourable light.
9. Marconi's biography is also a story about choices and the motivations behind them.
10. Reading her biography, I was lost in admiration for what Doris Lessing had achieved in literature.
11. On the Difference Between Chinese and Western Biography COMPARE.
12. He was in London publicizing his new biography of Kennedy.
13. Celebrity Biography, also known as "Three Giants", written by Romain Rolland, about three great men in different fields: Beethoven, Michelangelo and Leo Tolstoy.
14. XIAO Feng: the First Female Author of New China in Modern Biography Writing.
15. Autobiography is often less truthful than biography.
16. I suggest you go to the library and get a copy of his biography.
17. The history of the world is but the biography of great men.
18. She emerged from the biography as a mother to the entire nation, or as a busybody, but hardly as a social type, a figure comprehensible in terms of broader social developments.
19. His tale of self-improvement and hard work would make a fascinating biography in its own right, but represents something more than that.
20. Her achievements are chronicled in a new biography out this week.
21. Boswell wrote a famous biography of Dr.White.
22. Reading her biography, I was lost in admiration for what she had achieved in literature.
23. Edward Murray is the author of a new biography of Dean.
24. This book is a well balanced biography.
25. The second part of the brief biography of teaching high school language teaching objectives.
26. After reading a biography of Lincoln he was able to tell many stories about the President.
27. The story of her career in the theatre is told in a new biography.
28. There were no historical records of Homer, and no trustworthy biography of the man exists beyond a few self-referential hints embedded in the texts themselves.
29. It is, in its way, a maddening biography.
30. He is now collecting material for a biography.
31. Second, keeping up the traditions of Chinese history and biography literature;
32. Here's a biography of John Muir.
33. The man is reading a biography about a politician.
34. His biography is nothing but self-regarding nonsense.
35. After reading a biography of Premier Zhou Enlai, I knew more about his legendary life.
36. If you take a look at his biography, you can get a good idea of how his life experiences manifest themselves in his theories of beauty.
37. She agreed to collaborate with him in writing her biography.
38. The most controversial aspect of Marconi's life and the reason why there has been no satisfying biography of Marconi until now was his uncritical embrace of Benito Mussolini.
39. Biography must to some extent delineate characters.
40. This biography sometimes crosses the borderline between fact and fiction.
41. Now she is busy finishing off a biography of Queen Caroline.
42. The reviewer padded out his review with a lengthy biography of the author.
43. Lash's biography revealed a complicated woman who sought through political activity both to flee inner misery and to promote causes in which she passionately believed.
44. Publication of his biography was timed to coincide with his 70th birthday celebrations.
45. The biography weaves together the various strands of Einstein's life.
46. Nelson Mandela is the subject of a new biography.