what is a biography

A biography is a detailed description of a persons life, including more than just basic facts like education, work, relationships, and death; it portrays a persons experience of these life events. Unlike a profile or curriculum vitae, a biography presents a subjects life story, highlighting various aspects of their life, including intimate details of experience, and may include an analysis of the subjects personality. Biographical works are usually non-fiction, but fiction can also be used to portray a persons life. Biographies can be about people who are still alive, someone who lived centuries ago, someone who is globally famous, an unsung hero forgotten by history, or even a unique group of people. Biographies are meant to be loyal to the facts, as theyre available at the time, and the biographers ultimate goal is to recreate the world their subject lived in and describe how they functioned within it. Biographies can be written in diverse media, from literature to film, and form the genre known as biography.