as in memoir
a history of a person's life
an unauthorized biography of the actor gave him some serious headaches
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Taylor was elected Fort Pierce’s District 2 commissioner in 2024 after serving on the county’s planning and zoning commission for nearly a decade, according to his commissioner biography.
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Olivia Lloyd
updated July 29, Miami Herald, 29 July 2025
From the photo of herself as an adolescent on the cover to the numerous parallels between the biographies of character and author, Ullmann invites her readers to interpret these texts as based on life.
—Nadja Spiegelman, New York Times, 23 July 2025
Their religious qualms meant that the Harpers instead advertised biography, travel, science, classical philosophy, and theology, all strategically marketed to appeal to the emerging middle-class consumer.
—Time, 23 July 2025
Top 5 adult biographies borrowed in Indianapolis 1.
—Katie Wiseman, IndyStar, 21 July 2025
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Olivia Lloyd
updated July 29, Miami Herald, 29 July 2025
From the photo of herself as an adolescent on the cover to the numerous parallels between the biographies of character and author, Ullmann invites her readers to interpret these texts as based on life.
—Nadja Spiegelman, New York Times, 23 July 2025
Their religious qualms meant that the Harpers instead advertised biography, travel, science, classical philosophy, and theology, all strategically marketed to appeal to the emerging middle-class consumer.
—Time, 23 July 2025
Top 5 adult biographies borrowed in Indianapolis 1.
—Katie Wiseman, IndyStar, 21 July 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for biography
Noun
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Atherton Lin’s method, embedding memoir with cultural history, discloses how fickle and self-interested institutional memory can be.—
Lauren Michele Jackson,
New Yorker,
26 July 2025
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In her new memoir My Good Side, the Vanderpump Rules alum, 40, speaks about wanting to grow her family with her husband, Brock Davies, 35.—
Hannah Sacks,
People.com,
25 July 2025
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Those are the words of Dana Brown, former Deputy Editor of Vanity Fair, from his 2022 autobiography, Dilettante.—
John Tamny,
Forbes.com,
25 July 2025
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Occom also was the first Native American to write his autobiography.—
Frank Vaisvilas,
jsonline.com,
15 July 2025
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