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biography (s) (noun), biographies (pl)
1. The history of the lives of individual men and women, as a branch of literature.
2. The written record of the life of an individual.
3. The life-course of a man or other living being; the “life-history” of an animal or plant.

This is the best biography by me I have ever read.

—Lawrence Welk

A biography is a book that is usually written about a dead person because it is so unlike him when he was alive.

—Evan Esar