BIOGRAPHY. The subject here is best termed sacred biography, which most precisely designates the written accounts of lives of persons deemed to be holy, although its usage is extended also to oral traditions concerning such figures. The reason for...

. In contrast to classical and medieval Greco-Latin tradition and to subsequent development of the genre from the Renaissance on, French medieval secular biography is relatively poor. It appears as if the luxuriant growth of hagiography has stifled the...

See also factual genres, genre, non-fiction reading and writing The author of a biography usually writes about the life story of another individual in the third person. Along with autobiography, biography is one of the more literary kinds of...

Form of nonfictional literature whose subject is the life of an individual. The earliest biographical writings probably were funeral speeches and inscriptions. The origins of modern biography lie with Plutarch's moralizing lives of prominent Greeks and...

A biography (from the Greek words bios meaning "life", and graphos meaning "write") is an account of a person's life, usually published in the form of a book or essay, or in some other form, such as a film. An autobiography (auto, meaning "self", giving...