biography

A biography is a detailed narrative account of a person's life, focusing on their experiences, achievements, and influence within a historical or social context.

Observed surface forms (12)

• political memoir ×17
• biographical work ×11
• biographical book ×10
• hagiography ×2
• slave narrative ×2
• sports memoir ×2
• biographical memoir ×1
• biographical study ×1
• intellectual biography ×1
• multi-volume biography ×1

• presidential memoir ×1
• profile ×1

Instances (61)

• American Prometheus: The Triumph and Tragedy of J. Robert Oppenheimer
• book "Years of Upheaval" via concept surface "political memoir"
  surface form: Years of Upheaval
• Eleanor and Franklin via concept surface "biographical work"
• Buddha
  surface form: Buddha (book)
• Jacobs via concept surface "slave narrative"
  surface form: Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl
• Life and Voyages of Christopher Columbus via concept surface "biographical book"
• The Life of George Washington via concept surface "multi-volume biography"
• Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, an American Slave via concept surface "slave narrative"
• Relentless: A Memoir via concept surface "sports memoir"
• The Audacity of Hope via concept surface "political memoir"
• A Promised Land via concept surface "presidential memoir"
• A Man Called Intrepid via concept surface "biographical book"
• autobiography "My Autobiography" via concept surface "sports memoir"
  surface form: My Autobiography
• Years of Upheaval via concept surface "political memoir"
• "The Scalpel, The Sword" (biography)
  surface form: The Scalpel, The Sword
• Triggered: How the Left Thrives on Hate and Wants to Silence Us via concept surface "political memoir"
• Notorious RBG: The Life and Times of Ruth Bader Ginsburg
• book "Tuxedo Park" by Jennet Conant
  surface form: Tuxedo Park
• Hard Choices via concept surface "political memoir"
• biographical book "Grace and Grit" via concept surface "biographical book"
  surface form: Grace and Grit
• Thomas More's History of King Richard III via concept surface "biographical work"
• White House Years via concept surface "political memoir"
• Years of Renewal via concept surface "political memoir"
• The Big Bam via concept surface "biographical book"
  surface form: The Big Bam: The Life and Times of Babe Ruth
• The Color of Truth: McGeorge Bundy and William Bundy, Brothers in Arms via concept surface "biographical study"
• The Good Spy: The Life and Death of Robert Ames
• The Outlier: The Unfinished Presidency of Jimmy Carter via concept surface "biographical book"
• Memoir addressed to the inhabitants of America (justifying his defection) via concept surface "political memoir"
• The Fatal Englishman via concept surface "biographical work"
• Marilyn: A Biography
• Lady Byron Vindicated via concept surface "biographical work"
• Men of Our Times via concept surface "biographical work"
• Chasing the Flame: Sergio Vieira de Mello and the Fight to Save the World
• The Life and Letters of Charles Darwin via concept surface "biographical book"
• hagiography "Life of St Martin" by Sulpicius Severus via concept surface "hagiography"
  surface form: Life of St Martin
• A Beautiful Mind (biography)
• The Memoirs of Cordell Hull via concept surface "political memoir"
• All Things Possible: Setbacks and Success in Politics and Life via concept surface "political memoir"
• My Father, Mark Twain via concept surface "biographical memoir"
• The Lost City of Z: A Tale of Deadly Obsession in the Amazon via concept surface "biographical book"
• Lincoln the Unknown via concept surface "biographical book"
• Plutarch’s Parallel Lives via concept surface "biographical work"
• The Churchill Factor via concept surface "biographical book"
• Souvenirs sur Paul Gauguin via concept surface "biographical work"
• My Political Life via concept surface "political memoir"
• "Emma Darwin: A Century of Family Letters" via concept surface "biographical work"
  surface form: Emma Darwin: A Century of Family Letters
• Freud: A Life for Our Time
• El único camino via concept surface "political memoir"
• Agesilaus via concept surface "biographical work"
• Six Crises via concept surface "political memoir"