An account of the series of events making up a person's life

Usage examples of biography.

Introduction concludes that Sartre will ultimately be remembered for his literary biographies and autobiographical writings, rather than for his novels and plays.

Then let him read biography and note the paralyzing effect upon the biographees of sickness and half sickness and three quarter wellness.

Bradshaw expected naturally to see a youth of imperfect constitution, and cachectic or dyspeptic tendencies, who was in training to furnish one of those biographies beginning with the statement that, from his infancy, the subject of it showed no inclination for boyish amusements, and so on, until he dies out, for the simple reason that there was not enough of him to live.

It is not until after his death, when we sum up what he has done for purposes of biography or of eulogy, that we see how important and varied has been the work of his life.

This method of criticism rejects everything that traditional criticism thought important -- biography, literary history, philology -- they must all give place to a very close formal examination and exegetical evaluation of the texts of books themselves, exploring meanings in every mode of literary expression as they are directly apprehended by the informed modern reader.

Of the few biographies ever written of John Adams, those by Gilbert Chinard, Page Smith, and John Ferling are first-rate, fair in judgment, and well written.

I am wanting ways to kill - no, I mean restrain - the homicidal Gluck, and I get the biography of a frond?

Most of the material here is hagiological biography, occasionally revised as by Leo XIII.

The larger joke is in the way the haiku burlesques statements found in Buddhist biographies, that while lotuses were in flower some person dying obtained birth in the Amida Paradise, Sukhavati.

A renowned ichthyologist just back from an investigation of the bony fish in Lake Titicaca, an art historian who was the world expert on Russian icons, a philologist from the British Museum who spoke seven Chinese dialects and Simeon LeClerque who had won a literary prize for his biography of Bishop Berkeley.

Islamic sources that believed Ibn Kora never took part in the polemic and never even reached the court of the Khazar kaghan, because he had been poisoned en route, cite a certain text that, they say, could be his biography.

Spruance was receiving the dispatches not in flag plot, but on a couch in the flag mess where he sat reading a mildewy biography of George Washington, merely initialling the message board.

The mythologized biographies of such saviors communicate the messages of their world-transcending wisdom in world-transcending symbols -- which, ironically, are then generally translated back into such verbalized thoughts as built the interior walls in the first place.

Edwin Mims, in his biography of Sidney Lanier, concludes by quoting this poem.

To deny that she had frequently rewritten her own biography, keeping one step ahead of security checks and other inquiries, would be foolish.