BIOGRAPHY

Presented by:
Leyla Cagang & Angelene Ramos
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DEFINITION
 DEFINITION OF BIOGRAPHY
●Also called a ‘bio’, is a non-fiction
piece of work giving an objective
account of a person’s life. It entails
basic facts, such as childhood,
education, career, relationships,
family, and death.
●Biography is a literary genre
that portrays the experiences
of all these events occurring
in the life of a person, mostly
in a chronological order.
●A biography provides a life
story of a subject,
highlighting different
aspects of his of her life. A
person who writes
biographies, is called as a
“biographer.”
Examples of biographies include:

• Einstein: The Life and Times by Ronald

William Clark
• Princess Diana – A Biography of The
Princess of Wales by Drew L.
Crichton
• The First Filipino – A Biography of
Jose Rizal by Leon Ma. Guerrero
• Pedro’s Yo-Yos by Roberto Penas
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TIPS IN WRITING A
BIOGRAPHY
TIPS IN WRITING A BIOGRAPHY

2. Look for primary

1. Ask the subject for 3. Conduct interviews
sources about the
permission to write the with the subject and those
subject.
biography. close to them.

4. Visit locations that 5. Study the time and

6. Make a timeline of
are important to the place of the subject’s
the person’s life.
subject. life.
TIPS IN WRITING A BIOGRAPHY

7. Go for a 8. Create a thesis for the 9. Use flashbacks.

chronological structure. biography.

10. Focus on major 11. Identify a major 12. Include your own
events and milestones. theme or pattern in the opinions and thoughts
person’s life. about the person.
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TYPES OF
BIOGRAPHY
 HISTORICAL BIOGRAPHY
• (from the Greek historia: inquiry,
knowledge; bios: life; grafein: writ-
ing) is a reconstruction of a human
life, and a representation of an
historical individual.
• The largest and most famous library
known to man boasts rich antiquity of
stories of great men and their glories
in empires past.

Example: His Excellency: George

Washington by Joseph J. Ellis
PICTURE BOOK BIOGRAPHY
● Brief, heavily illustrated.
● Cover multiple subjects at once.
(Not every subject in one story, of
course, but some combination)
EXAMPLE:
 LITERARY BIOGRAPHY
● A popular genre in nonfiction, a literary
biography is a type of literature focusing on the
life of an author’s chosen subject. As mentioned
previously, you can write about famous people,
granted what you’re going to write has not been
told yet.
Examples of Literary Biography:

● Henry James by Leon Edel

● James Joyce by Richard Ellmann (1959)
● Edith Wharton: A Biography by RWB Lewis (1975)
 PARTIAL BIOGRAPHY
● Covers only a portion such as the
subject's childhood.
● Collective biographies focus on
several people who are joined by a
common thread such as their
profession.
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