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Here are short definitions of a biography and autobiography: Biography: A biography is a third person account of someone's life written by someone else. It includes facts about when and where they were born, their family, achievements and events in chronological order. Autobiography: An autobiography is a first person account of someone's life written by themselves. It includes personal experiences, feelings and events that have influenced them, written chronologically from their perspective.

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Here are short definitions of a biography and autobiography: Biography: A biography is a third person account of someone's life written by someone else. It includes facts about when and where they were born, their family, achievements and events in chronological order. Autobiography: An autobiography is a firs
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Memoirs and biographies

  • 1. BIOGRAPHIES & MEMOIRS By: Andrea Huertas Cianchini EDU 325

  • 2. What is a Biography?  “A usually written history of a person's life” (Merriam-Webster, n.d.)  “An account or detailed description about the life of a person. It entails basic facts, such as childhood, education, career, relationships, family, and death. Biography is a literary genre that portrays the experiences of all these events occurring in the life of a person, mostly in a chronological order.” (Literary Devices, n.d.) (1)

  • 3. Types / Categories of a Biography (2)

  • 4. Significant Writers of Biographies The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin Benjamin Franklin 1791 The Diary of a Young Girl Anne Frank 1947 Night Elie Wiesel 1956 I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings Maya Angelou 1969 (Brookman, 2017)

  • 5. Classic Examples of Biographies (Good Reads, n.d.) Madame Curie: A Biography by Ève Curie 1936 J.R.R. Tolkien: A Biography by Humphrey Carpenter 1977 Frida: A Biography of Frida Kahlo by Hayden Herrera 1983 Into the Wild by Jon Krakauer 1996

  • 6. Bibliography of 20 Bi
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    Autobiography and biography

  • 1. Autobiogra phy an d biography By:YourNameHere

  • 2. Autobiogra phy

  • 3. - Is from the Greek word autos – self + bios – life + graphein – to write, is a written account of the life of a person written by that person.

  • 4. An autobiography is an extensive true narrative of an individual’s life, from infancy to date, from his point of view, and in his/her own personal style.

  • 5. Autobiography Trough the Ages

  • 6. THE CLASSICAL PERIOD:  Apologia  Oration  Confession

  • 7. Apologia  purporting to be self-justification rather than self-documentation

  • 8. Oration  not of a public kind but a literary kind that could not be aloud in privacy.

  • 9. A memoir on the other hand covers one specific aspect of the writer’s life while an autobiography focuses on the chronology of the writer’s entire life

  • 10. Confession initiating the chain of confessional and sometimes racy and highly self-critical, autobiographies of the Romantic era and beyond.

  • 11. In the spirit of Augustine's Confessions is the 12th- century Historia Calamitatum

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