Biography

Biography, a detailed description or account of someone's life. Biographies are written stories of a person's life that were written by someone else, while an autobiography is a person's story written by themselves.[1]

Since 1917, the "Pulitzer Prize for Biography or Autobiography" is awarded for a distinguished and appropriately documented biography or autobiography by an American author.

> Study a person's life and you learn about the times in which that person lived; examine a historical period, and you will discover the great people who influenced the times in which they lived. William Manchester.[2]

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## See also[edit]

* Plutarch
* Dale Carnegie
* Thomas Carlyle

## External links[edit]

* Biographies.com Explore over 25,000 short biographies of people from around the world.
* Biographical Dictionary.
* The Biography Maker.

## References[edit]

1. ↑ Biographies.
2. ↑ Top 10 Pulitzer Prize for Biography or Autobiography Books of All Time