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A biography, or simply bio, is a detailed description of a person's life. It involves more than just basic facts like education, work, relationships, and death; it portrays a person's experience of these life events. Unlike a profile or curriculum vitae ( résumé ), a biography presents a subject's life story, highlighting various aspects of ...
Spiritual autobiography is an account of an author's struggle or journey towards God, followed by conversion a religious conversion, often interrupted by moments of regression. The author re-frames their life as a demonstration of divine intention through encounters with the Divine. The earliest example of a spiritual autobiography is Augustine ...
A Select Glossary of English Words (1860). Sermons Preached in Westminster Abbey (1860). Synonyms of the New Testament: Fifth Edition Revised (1860). Proverbs and their Lessons (1861). Commentary on the Epistles to the Seven Churches in Asia: Revelation II, III (1863). Every Good Gift from Above (1864). Poems: Collected and Arranged Anew (1865).
Dictionary of National Biography. The Dictionary of National Biography ( DNB) is a standard work of reference on notable figures from British history, published since 1885. The updated Oxford Dictionary of National Biography ( ODNB) was published on 23 September 2004 in 60 volumes and online, with 50,113 biographical articles covering 54,922 lives.
A Biographical Dictionary of Railway Engineers. Biographical Dictionary of the Extreme Right Since 1890. Akyeampong, Emmanuel and Gates, Henry Louis, Jr., eds. Dictionary of African Biography (Oxford, 2012) Amit, Vered, Biographical Dictionary of Social and Cultural Anthropology. Anderson, Gerald with Robert Coote, eds, Biographical Dictionary ...
Literary biography. A literary biography is the biographical exploration of individuals' lives merging historical facts with the conventions of narrative. [ 1] Biographies about artists and writers are sometimes some of the most complicated forms of biography. [ 2] Not only does the author of the biography have to write about the subject of the ...
Memoir. A memoir ( / ˈmɛm.wɑːr /; [ 1] from French mémoire [me.mwaʁ], from Latin memoria 'memory, remembrance') is any nonfiction narrative writing based on the author's personal memories. [ 2][ 3] The assertions made in the work are thus understood to be factual. While memoir has historically been defined as a subcategory of biography or ...
Hagiography. A hagiography ( / ˌhæɡiˈɒɡrəfi /; from Ancient Greek ἅγιος, hagios 'holy' and -γραφία, -graphia 'writing') [ 1] is a biography of a saint or an ecclesiastical leader, as well as, by extension, an adulatory and idealized biography of a preacher, priest, founder, saint, monk, nun or icon in any of the world's ...