Biographical
adjective
Related to someone's life history or story.
She is writing a biographical book about the famous artist.
Often appears as...
- biographical information
- biographical sketch
adjective
Writing about someone else's life.
The author has written several biographical novels.
Often appears as...
- biographical novel
- biographical essay
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Academic
adjective
Related to someone's life history or story.
She is writing a biographical book about the famous artist.
Often appears as...
- biographical information
- biographical sketch
adjective
Writing about someone else's life.
The author has written several biographical novels.
Often appears as...
- biographical novel
- biographical essay
Usage tips
Academic
Definition 1 of 2
Pro Tip 1/3Historical Account
The term highlights a factual recounting of someone's life events.
The museum showcased a biographical display of the explorer's adventures.
Pro Tip 2/3Personal Journey
It can detail personal growth and experiences, depicting human development.
His biographical article showed how his upbringing influenced his career.
Pro Tip 3/3Context Sensitive
Understand where the subject's story fits in a wider historical or cultural context.
The biographical film contextualized her achievements during the civil rights movement.
Pro Tip 1/3Historical Account
The term highlights a factual recounting of someone's life events.
The museum showcased a biographical display of the explorer's adventures.
Pro Tip 2/3Personal Journey
It can detail personal growth and experiences, depicting human development.
His biographical article showed how his upbringing influenced his career.
Pro Tip 3/3Context Sensitive
Understand where the subject's story fits in a wider historical or cultural context.
The biographical film contextualized her achievements during the civil rights movement.
Pro Tip 1/3Historical Account
The term highlights a factual recounting of someone's life events.
The museum showcased a biographical display of the explorer's adventures.
Pro Tip 2/3Personal Journey
It can detail personal growth and experiences, depicting human development.
His biographical article showed how his upbringing influenced his career.
Pro Tip 3/3Context Sensitive
Understand where the subject's story fits in a wider historical or cultural context.
The biographical film contextualized her achievements during the civil rights movement.
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Did Shakespeare write...
based on historical and biographical evidence. But there is another way to test whether Shakespeare's famous lines were actually written by someone else. Linguistics, the study of language, can tell us a great deal about the way we speak and write
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Three ideas. Three...
because apparently, I'm even worse at making retirement plans than I am at speaking my own mind. Now, all I've done up until this point apart from giving over a spattering of biographical detail is to tell you indirectly that I have three ideas
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Africa’s rhyming history...
was far from a lone had not been eclipsed by a far more aggressive phase of imperialism my third moment of possibility is much broader and not nearly so biographical I refer to the period of a decade maybe a dozen years
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The Life of a Photograph...
you a feeling of what it's like to lean out from an airplane that has no door probably my favorite landscape photograph because it is biographical as
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Did Shakespeare write...
based on historical and biographical evidence. But there is another way to test whether Shakespeare's famous lines were actually written by someone else. Linguistics, the study of language, can tell us a great deal about the way we speak and write
Video examples
Three ideas. Three...
because apparently, I'm even worse at making retirement plans than I am at speaking my own mind. Now, all I've done up until this point apart from giving over a spattering of biographical detail is to tell you indirectly that I have three ideas
Video examples
Africa’s rhyming history...
was far from a lone had not been eclipsed by a far more aggressive phase of imperialism my third moment of possibility is much broader and not nearly so biographical I refer to the period of a decade maybe a dozen years
Video examples
The Life of a Photograph...
you a feeling of what it's like to lean out from an airplane that has no door probably my favorite landscape photograph because it is biographical as
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Paul Haggis
Canadian Director
All my work is partly biographical. I mean, 'Crash' was absolutely that, absolutely. But you just wouldn't recognize me in most of those characters. But I was in every single one of those characters in 'Crash,' because those were all fears that I had felt. Things that I had thought in my deepest, darkest heart.
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Gary Wolf
American Journalist
The problem of forgetting might not torment us so much if we could only convince ourselves that remembering isn't important. Perhaps the things we learn - words, dates, formulas, historical and biographical details - don't really matter. Facts can be looked up. That's what the Internet is for.
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Tess Gerritsen
American Novelist
Because I never plan anything out ahead of time, I'm always in the process of learning about my characters. Without a biographical sketch to guide me, I discover things about my heroines as the stories unfold. Only in 'Body Double' did I discover that Maura's mother was a serial killer.
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Nile Rodgers
American Musician
I'd probably be a super wealthy guy if I had sat around writing songs and getting them placed like everyone else I know. But I write songs about people or after I meet them and they're somewhat biographical - they're fiction but also non-fiction.
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Iggy Azalea
Australian Musician
I feel like 'Work' was a really good song for people to get to know me, as it's obviously biographical. With 'Bounce,' I wanted to make sure people know there's a fun side to me as well as the somber and serious one.
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Irving Stone
American Writer
The biographical novel is a true and documented story of one human being's journey across the face of the years, transmuted from the raw material of life into the delight and purity of an authentic art form.
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Jesse Eisenberg
American Actor
When you take on a role, even if the character is somebody that you are dissimilar to, you have to identify with the role and look for an emotional connection even if there is not a biographical one.
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Stacy Schiff
American Author
In an ideal world, the perfect biographical subject would have been the star of his penmanship class at grade school - and would thereafter write an English that positively sings.
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Sarah Bradford
English Author
When you are absorbed in a biographical subject, you get so close you don't realise the potential effect of what you say. You are trying to get at the truth.
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Jim Dine
American Artist
Western art is built on the biographical passion of one artist for another.
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Paul Haggis
Canadian Director
All my work is partly biographical. I mean, 'Crash' was absolutely that, absolutely. But you just wouldn't recognize me in most of those characters. But I was in every single one of those characters in 'Crash,' because those were all fears that I had felt. Things that I had thought in my deepest, darkest heart.
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Gary Wolf
American Journalist
The problem of forgetting might not torment us so much if we could only convince ourselves that remembering isn't important. Perhaps the things we learn - words, dates, formulas, historical and biographical details - don't really matter. Facts can be looked up. That's what the Internet is for.
Quote examples
Tess Gerritsen
American Novelist
Because I never plan anything out ahead of time, I'm always in the process of learning about my characters. Without a biographical sketch to guide me, I discover things about my heroines as the stories unfold. Only in 'Body Double' did I discover that Maura's mother was a serial killer.
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Nile Rodgers
American Musician
I'd probably be a super wealthy guy if I had sat around writing songs and getting them placed like everyone else I know. But I write songs about people or after I meet them and they're somewhat biographical - they're fiction but also non-fiction.
Quote examples
Iggy Azalea
Australian Musician
I feel like 'Work' was a really good song for people to get to know me, as it's obviously biographical. With 'Bounce,' I wanted to make sure people know there's a fun side to me as well as the somber and serious one.
Quote examples
Irving Stone
American Writer
The biographical novel is a true and documented story of one human being's journey across the face of the years, transmuted from the raw material of life into the delight and purity of an authentic art form.
Quote examples
Jesse Eisenberg
American Actor
When you take on a role, even if the character is somebody that you are dissimilar to, you have to identify with the role and look for an emotional connection even if there is not a biographical one.
Quote examples
Stacy Schiff
American Author
In an ideal world, the perfect biographical subject would have been the star of his penmanship class at grade school - and would thereafter write an English that positively sings.
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Sarah Bradford
English Author
When you are absorbed in a biographical subject, you get so close you don't realise the potential effect of what you say. You are trying to get at the truth.
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Jim Dine
American Artist
Western art is built on the biographical passion of one artist for another.
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