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biography

[bahy-og-ruh-fee, bee-] / baɪˈɒg rə fi, bi- /


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She listed literary fiction, memoir, biography, and essay collections as the defining genres of the smaller size books.

From Los Angeles Times • May 27, 2026

Instead, Gallrein simply functioned as an anthropomorphized biography.

From Slate • May 19, 2026

But in recent years, print sales in such categories as biography, current affairs and business and economics—what publishers refer to as “serious nonfiction” and which tend to resonate especially with men—have fallen considerably.

From The Wall Street Journal • May 18, 2026

Revealing much about the Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor scandal was Andrew Lownie's biography, Entitled, which is being released again this week with fresh allegations.

From BBC • May 18, 2026

Everyone in the Annex except Mr. van Daan and Peter has read the Hungarian Rhapsody trilogy, a biography of the composer, piano virtuoso and child prodigy Franz Liszt.

From "The Diary of a Young Girl" by Anne Frank




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