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is a biography by the same person it is about... A biography is more than a list of impersonal facts... a biography presents the subject... and that biography was regarded as a discrete entity from historiography is evidenced by the fact that Xenophon... One significant example of biography from this period which does not exactly fit into that mold is the life of... was a landmark biography focusing on secular lives... of English biography emerged in the late eighteenth century... Generally American biography followed the English model... s view that biography was a part of history... What emerged was a rather didactic form of biography which sought to shape individual character of the reader in the process of defining national... The distinction between mass biography and literary biography which had formed by the middle of the nineteenth century reflected a breach between high... Biography began to flower thanks to new publishing technologies and an expanding reading public... biography developed in which the telling of one... The trend in literary biography was accompanied in popular biography by a sort of... media forms of biography became much more popular than literary forms... The popularity of these forms of biography culminated in the creation of such... all over the world to compile their own biography and illustrate it with other people... Biography and Culture in Nineteenth... their writers a specific prize for writing a biography such as the...

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