Biography (genre)

thumb|upright=1.2|Third volume of a 1727 edition of Plutarch's [[Lives of the Noble Greeks and Romans printed by Jacob Tonson]] A biography, or simply bio, is a detailed description of a person's life. It involves more than just basic facts like education, work, relationships, and death; it portrays a person's experience of these life events. Unlike a profile or curriculum vitae (résumé), a biography presents a subject's life story, highlighting various aspects of their life, including intimate details of experience, and may include an analysis of the subject's personality.

thumb|Augustine of Hippo|Saint Augustine of Hippo wrote Confessions, the first Western autobiography ever written, around AD 400. Portrait by [[Philippe de Champaigne, 17th century.]] An autobiography, sometimes informally called an autobio, is a self-written account of one's own life, providing a personal narrative that reflects on the author's experiences, memories, and insights. This genre allows individuals to share their unique perspectives and stories, offering readers a glimpse into the author's personal journey and the historical or cultural context in which they lived.

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film genre; dramatizes the life of an actual person or people

novel containing a fictional account of a person's life

subfield of hadith studies that aims to distinguish reliable from unreliable hadith

A clerihew ( ) is a whimsical, four-line biographical poem of a type invented by Edmund Clerihew Bentley. The first line is the name of the poem's subject, usually a famous person, and the remainder puts the subject in an absurd light or reveals something unknown or spurious about the subject. The rhyme scheme is \mathrm{AABB}, and the rhymes are often forced. The line length and metre are irregular. Bentley invented the clerihew in school and then popularized it in books. One of his best known is this (1905):

Psychobiography aims to understand historically significant individuals, such as artists or political leaders, through the application of psychological theory and research.