as in memoir
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 biography
Novels by Stephen King and Ocean Vuong, Ron Chernow’s latest blockbuster biography, a new graphic novel by Alison Bechdel and more.
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John Cassidy, New York Times, 30 Apr. 2025
His English improved by reading books and listening to audiobooks on creating businesses and biographies about entrepreneurs like Steve Jobs and Richard Branson.
—Terry Collins, USA Today, 28 Apr. 2025
In Peter Ames Carlin’s biography of Wilson, Catch a Wave, Love recalled sweeping Wilson’s house for drugs and trying to imbue his chaotic life with some semblance of order.
—Jon Blistein, Rolling Stone, 28 Apr. 2025
The wish is revealing—strange and sad, and haunting in ways the biography cannot quite accommodate.
—Lauren Michele Jackson, New Yorker, 28 Apr. 2025
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John Cassidy, New York Times, 30 Apr. 2025
His English improved by reading books and listening to audiobooks on creating businesses and biographies about entrepreneurs like Steve Jobs and Richard Branson.
—Terry Collins, USA Today, 28 Apr. 2025
In Peter Ames Carlin’s biography of Wilson, Catch a Wave, Love recalled sweeping Wilson’s house for drugs and trying to imbue his chaotic life with some semblance of order.
—Jon Blistein, Rolling Stone, 28 Apr. 2025
The wish is revealing—strange and sad, and haunting in ways the biography cannot quite accommodate.
—Lauren Michele Jackson, New Yorker, 28 Apr. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for biography
Noun
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One of the latest celebs to release a memoir is Tina Knowles.—
Elizabeth Ayoola,
Essence,
15 May 2025
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Bono laid bare his transformation from Dublin lad Paul Hewson into a global rock star and human rights crusader in his memoir Surrender: 40 Songs, One Story.—
Mike Fleming Jr,
Deadline,
15 May 2025
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Adams estimated in her 1989 autobiography, One Woman's Army: A Black Officer Remembers the WAC, that the unit averaged 65,000 pieces of mail per shift.—
Rachel Treisman,
NPR,
29 Apr. 2025
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In his autobiography Spare, Prince Harry discussed their sometimes-contentious relationship, as is common between siblings.—
Lissete Lanuza Sáenz,
StyleCaster,
28 Apr. 2025
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“Biography.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/biography. Accessed 18 May. 2025.
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