biographical literature
C21732
concept
Biographical literature is a genre of writing that narrates and interprets the life, experiences, and character of a real person, often situating them within their historical and cultural context.
Observed surface forms (16)
- biographical essay ×31
- literary biography ×14
- religious biography ×8
- biographical narrative ×4
- Christian biography ×3
- philosophical biography ×3
- biographical essay collection ×2
- biographical analysis ×1
- biographical essay series ×1
- biographical history ×1
- comparative biography ×1
- criminal biography ×1
- literary biography collection ×1
- scientific biography ×1
- scientific biography collection ×1
- young adult biography ×1
Instances (70)
- Every Love Story Is a Ghost Story: A Life of David Foster Wallace via concept surface "literary biography"
- A Logical Journey: From Gödel to Philosophy via concept surface "philosophical biography"
- Islamic biographical literature (sira)
- Records of the Grand Historian via concept surface "biographical history"
- Saint-Exupéry: A Biography via concept surface "literary biography"
- A Tragic Honesty: The Life and Work of Richard Yates via concept surface "literary biography"
- Farther and Wilder: The Lost Weekends and Literary Dreams of Charles Jackson via concept surface "literary biography"
- Life of Theseus via concept surface "biographical essay"
- Life of Numa Pompilius via concept surface "biographical essay"
- Life of Publicola via concept surface "biographical essay"
- Life of Themistocles via concept surface "biographical essay"
- Life of Camillus via concept surface "biographical essay"
- Life of Fabius Maximus via concept surface "biographical essay"
- Life of Dion via concept surface "biographical essay"
- Life of Brutus via concept surface "biographical essay"
- Life of Timoleon via concept surface "biographical essay"
- Life of Aemilius Paulus via concept surface "biographical essay"
- Life of Pyrrhus via concept surface "biographical essay"
- Life of Marius via concept surface "biographical essay"
- Life of Lucullus via concept surface "biographical essay"
- Life of Pompey via concept surface "biographical essay"
- Life of Pelopidas via concept surface "biographical essay"
- Life of Aratus via concept surface "biographical essay"
- Life of Galba via concept surface "biographical essay"
- Life of Alcibiades via concept surface "biographical essay"
- Life of Cimon via concept surface "biographical essay"
- Life of Titus Quinctius Flamininus via concept surface "biographical essay"
- Life of Marcellus via concept surface "biographical essay"
- Life of Otho via concept surface "biographical essay"
- Life of Nicias via concept surface "biographical essay"
- Vita Constantini via concept surface "Christian biography"
- Gumption: Relighting the Torch of Freedom with America's Gutsiest Troublemakers via concept surface "biographical essay collection"
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Life of Macrina (as subject)
via concept surface "Christian biography"
surface form: Life of Macrina
- The Desire of Ages via concept surface "religious biography"
- Subtle is the Lord: The Science and the Life of Albert Einstein via concept surface "scientific biography"
- biography of Isis via concept surface "biographical narrative"
- narrative of Dante’s exile via concept surface "biographical narrative"
- Life of the Messenger of God via concept surface "religious biography"
- Van Gogh biographies
- George Eliot’s Life as Related in Her Letters and Journals via concept surface "literary biography"
- The History of the Remarkable Life of John Sheppard via concept surface "criminal biography"
- There Once Was a Slave: The Heroic Story of Frederick Douglass via concept surface "young adult biography"
- Defterimden Portreler via concept surface "biographical essay collection"
- Memoir of the Life of Martha Laurens Ramsay via concept surface "Christian biography"
- Some Remarkable Passages in the Life of the Honourable Col. James Gardiner via concept surface "religious biography"
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Life of Proclus by Marinus of Neapolis
via concept surface "philosophical biography"
surface form: Life of Proclus
- Porphyry's Life of Plotinus via concept surface "philosophical biography"
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biographical notices of scientists (Éloges académiques)
via concept surface "biographical essay series"
surface form: Biographical notices of scientists (Éloges académiques)
- History of the Prophet Joseph, by His Mother via concept surface "religious biography"
- Life of Henry Wadsworth Longfellow via concept surface "literary biography"