as in biographies
disapproving
a book about someone's life that makes it seem better than it really is or was
a hagiography of the leader written by one of his closest confidants
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Noun
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Xavier follows the number to a shelf of biographies, including those about Frank Sinatra.—
Kimberly Roots,
TVLine,
4 Mar. 2025 -
Personal writing, like biographies and memoirs, aren’t going away anytime soon.—
Big Think,
Big Think,
27 Feb. 2025
Noun
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Ex-haredim such as Shalom Auslander are writing remarkable memoirs and novels.—
Judith Shulevitz,
The Atlantic,
16 Mar. 2025
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Several climbers who survived the storm wrote memoirs about their experience on the mountain.—
Randall Colburn,
EW.com,
16 Mar. 2025
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“Hagiographies.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/hagiographies. Accessed 24 May. 2025.
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