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hagiographies

noun

plural of hagiography

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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Recent Examples of hagiographies Their lives were recorded in the form of hagiographies, stories of the saints, often ornamented with folkloric motifs, focusing on marvelous adventures and miraculous doings. — Literary Hub, 30 July 2026 Some of the hagiographies of Francis were written shortly after his death in 1226. — Vanessa Corcoran, The Conversation, 2 Feb. 2026 To say that Melania is a hagiography would be an insult to hagiographies. — Frank Scheck, HollywoodReporter, 30 Jan. 2026 Evaluations for top performers read as hagiographies. — Davis Winkie, USA Today, 14 Oct. 2025

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Braun writes that popular volumes included Bibles, farming and health manuals, biographies, and fiction.

— Livia Gershon, JSTOR Daily, 18 Sep. 2026
This flawed but very entertaining two-hander belongs in the unique subgenre of literary biographies in which a cult author’s life is investigated through the highly specific prism of their work.

— Damon Wise, Deadline, 15 Sep. 2026

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As literature scholar and archivist Jolie Braun writes, drawing on three memoirs from this era, women in that line of work had some distinct advantages but also faced serious hardships, both physical and social.

— Livia Gershon, JSTOR Daily, 18 Sep. 2026
Mandela’s second volume of memoirs was unfinished at the time of his death in 2013.

— Encyclopedia Britannica, Encyclopedia Britannica, 14 Sep. 2026

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