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Foxe's Book of Martyrs
A biography is a detailed description or account of someone's life. More than a list of basic facts (education, work, relationships, and death), biography also portrays the subject's experience of those events. Unlike a profile or curriculum vitae (résumé), a biography presents the subject's life story, highlighting various aspects of his or her life, including intimate details of experience, and may include an analysis of the subject's personality.
Biographical works are usually non-fiction, but fiction can also be used to portray a person's life. One in-depth form of biographical coverage is called legacy writing. Biographical works in diverse media—from literature to film—form the genre known as biography.
An autobiography is written by the subject him or herself. An authorized biography is written with the cooperation of family and heirs, or of the subject if alive.
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- Note. A list of images for this introduction is at Portal:Biography/Intro/Image.