A carefully researched, relatively full account of the facts of the life of a particular person, or closely related group of people, written by another The person written about is the biographee As in any historical work, the biographer presents, in continuous narrative, the most interesting and important events, usually with the aim of elucidating character, personality, and social context
Biography is the branch of literature which deals with accounts of people's lives. a volume of biography and criticism. 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 Romans and Suetonius's gossipy lives of the Caesars. Few biographies of common individuals were written until the 16th century. The major developments of English biography came in the 18th century, with such works as James Boswell's Life of Johnson. In modern times impatience with Victorian reticence and the development of psychoanalysis have sometimes led to a more penetrating and comprehensive understanding of biographical subjects. See also autobiography
A written account of a person's life Biographical sources either contain these information or help to locate them
A written account of a person's life, actions, or character A biographer is one who writes such an account, a biographee is one about whom the account is written An autobiography is an account of a person's life written by himself or herself