biography

Noun
  1. An account of the series of events making up a person's life (synset 106527818)
    is a type of: account, chronicle, history, story - a record or narrative description of past events
    subtypes:
    • autobiography - a biography of yourself
    • hagiography - a biography that idealizes or idolizes the person (especially a person who is a saint)
    • profile - biographical sketch
    specific instances: parallel lives - a collection of biographies of famous pairs of Greeks and Romans written by Plutarch; used by Shakespeare in writing some of his plays
    same as: life, life history, life story

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