Definition of Biography

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Definition of Biography
	Biography The written history of a person's life. Biographical writings in general. Related Definitions: Biographical, General, History, In, Life, Of, Person, The, Written

Biography Quotations

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

Biography lends to death a new terror.
Oscar Wilde

For one who reads, there is no limit to the number of lives that may be lived, for fiction, biography, and history offer an inexhaustible number of lives in many parts of the world, in all periods of time.
Louis L'Amour

Those who have no record of what their forebears have accomplished lose the inspiration which comes from the teaching of biography and history.
Carter G. Woodson

Read no history: nothing but biography, for that is life without theory.
Benjamin Disraeli

We have escapist fiction, so why not escapist biography?
John Kenneth Galbraith

No great man lives in vain. The history of the world is but the biography of great men.
Thomas Carlyle

There is no psychology; there is only biography and autobiography.
Thomas Szasz

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

I'm also doing a special for Comedy Central called Autobiography. It's going to be a spoof of Biography.
Kathy Griffin

Biography Translations

biography in French is biographie
biography in German is Lebensbeschreibung, Biographie
biography in Swedish is biografi

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