Including historical context in your biography (i.e. a paragraph explaining what life was like in Florida during the Great Depression) can help readers understand why these details are important.

Biography (including Autobiography): A narrative work more than 50% of which recounts the personal aspects of the life of one or more individuals.

A professional biography is a summary of who you are as a professional, based upon your education, experience, and unique skillset (what you do and how you do it).

A good biography presents the facts about a person's life including what the subject did and how he or she made a difference in the world. It should also tell the story in an interesting way, showing what …

Biographical writing is about someone else’s life. It is about a real person but written by someone else. A biography highlights the key events that have happened in their life, sometimes talking about their …

In this book, biographies in a broad sense, and of various types, will be studied. Biographies can be commonly classified into biography (of others) and autobiog-raphy, and then further classified. This …

I will confess to an added attraction of biography: dealing with individ- uals such as William James, or Charles Darwin, or Ernst Haeckel, or Johann Wolfgang von Goethe is simply more interesting than …