as in memoirs
a history of a person's life
an unauthorized biography of the actor gave him some serious headaches
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Recent Examples of biographies
Activists and political figures now often comb through the biographies of journalists at major institutions looking for instances of past behavior that could signal political bias.
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Max Tani, semafor.com, 15 June 2026
Those biographies were not included in the poll release.
—Seth Klamann, Denver Post, 7 June 2026
Nor does either cite Biden’s name in the biographies listed on their official campaign websites.
—ABC News, 6 June 2026
Candidates with backgrounds in farming, organized labor, firefighting, or military service have become increasingly attractive recruits, but those biographies also invite scrutiny from opponents eager to paint them as political insiders.
—Ramsey Touchberry, The Washington Examiner, 6 June 2026
The presidential reading room features thousands of books chosen by the Obamas, ranging from presidential biographies to best-selling fiction.
—Sophia Tareen, Los Angeles Times, 4 June 2026
In addition to books and biographies about Ali’s life, he has also been memorialized through documentaries and an upcoming Broadway show called Ali.
—Alex Gurley, PEOPLE, 3 June 2026
This month’s picks feature natural histories of American megafauna, domestic memoirs of parenting while trans, biographies of radical anthropologists, and much, much more.
—Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 2 June 2026
Now Nicholas Fox Weber, the executive director of the Josef & Anni Albers Foundation for more than four decades, as well as the author of previous biographies on the artists Balthus and Le Corbusier, seeks to remedy this oversight with an intimate new biography.
—Air Mail, 9 May 2026
Max Tani, semafor.com, 15 June 2026
Those biographies were not included in the poll release.
—Seth Klamann, Denver Post, 7 June 2026
Nor does either cite Biden’s name in the biographies listed on their official campaign websites.
—ABC News, 6 June 2026
Candidates with backgrounds in farming, organized labor, firefighting, or military service have become increasingly attractive recruits, but those biographies also invite scrutiny from opponents eager to paint them as political insiders.
—Ramsey Touchberry, The Washington Examiner, 6 June 2026
The presidential reading room features thousands of books chosen by the Obamas, ranging from presidential biographies to best-selling fiction.
—Sophia Tareen, Los Angeles Times, 4 June 2026
In addition to books and biographies about Ali’s life, he has also been memorialized through documentaries and an upcoming Broadway show called Ali.
—Alex Gurley, PEOPLE, 3 June 2026
This month’s picks feature natural histories of American megafauna, domestic memoirs of parenting while trans, biographies of radical anthropologists, and much, much more.
—Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 2 June 2026
Now Nicholas Fox Weber, the executive director of the Josef & Anni Albers Foundation for more than four decades, as well as the author of previous biographies on the artists Balthus and Le Corbusier, seeks to remedy this oversight with an intimate new biography.
—Air Mail, 9 May 2026
Recent Examples of Synonyms for biographies
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Another early closer – this specialty production, in which a rotating cast of celebrities read the (supposedly) unintentionally funny memoirs of other celebrities, was planned for a summer-long run, but audience lack of interest and critics’ lack of luster reviews put the kibosh on that.—
Greg Evans,
Deadline,
20 June 2026
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Her account there is excessive and loose, a counterweight to her essays and memoirs, which can seem opaque and professorial.—
Emma Alpern,
Vulture,
17 June 2026
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Hanks' wife Rita Wilson stars in and co-produces the new show, which features an ever-changing lineup of entertainment, politicians and athletes who read and act out excerpts from other celebrities' autobiographies.—
Tommy McArdle,
PEOPLE,
20 May 2026
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When women came to write spiritual texts—autobiographies, meditations, letters—their own bodies provided an imagery to describe the contours of their belief.—
Chandler Fritz,
The New York Review of Books,
21 Mar. 2026
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