Biographies

A biography is a detailed description or account of someone's life.

 More than a list of basic facts (education, work, relationships, and death), biography also portrays the subject's experience of those events.

Unlike a profile or curriculum vitae (resume), a biography presents the subject's life story, highlighting various aspects of his or her life, including intimate details of experience, and may include an analysis of the subject's personality.

 Biographical works are usually non-fiction, but fiction can also be used to portray a person's life. One in-depth form of biographical coverage is called legacy writing. Biographical works in diverse media from literature to film

There are three types of biography.

1. Autobiography A narrative account of an extended period of some person's life, written by, or presented as having been written by, that person; or the practice of writing such works. Autobiography differs from biography not only in its evidently more subjective narrative point of view but in its inconclusiveness: an autobiographer cannot recount her or his own death...

2. Biography A narrative history of the life of some person; or the practice of writing such works. Most biographies provide an account of the life of a notable individual from birth to death, or in the case of living persons from birth to the time of writing; but some treat the connected lives of paired subjects or of groups (known as group biography ); and since the late 20th century the term has been stretched to cover accounts of nonhuman subjects such as houses, cities, or commodities, in which case a biography really means an intimate or gossipy history.

3. Memoir A narrative recollection of the writer's earlier experiences, especially those involving unusual people, places, or events. A memoir is commonly distinguished from an autobiography by its greater emphasis on other people or upon events such as war and travel experienced in common with others, and sometimes by its more episodic structure, which does not need to be tied to the personal development of the narrator; however, the terms are often still confounded. Memoirs are supposed to be non-fictional,

Got an interest when was in 1st Puc. A Channel Called History Channel used to air a show called The Biography . It showed lives of Political legends, monarchs, dictators, musicians, businessmen. It gave a detailed picture of their lives what made them reach that stature.

Adolf Hitler(Germany)

Mahatma Gandhi

Nelson Mandela

S C Bose

Nehru-Gandhi family

Dr B.R Ambedkar

L.K Advani

Steve Jobs

JRD Tata

G.K Birla

Dhirubhai Ambani

Andre Agassi

What I understand biography is

Some really gave an inspiration, some gave the hardships, obstacles they faced. The word Biography in short means graphing the path in one s life. Bio=Human(life) Graph=Time period So Biography can be anything, both up and downs, some give the right path and some give what not to be done.