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biography

[bahy-og-ruh-fee, bee-] / baɪˈɒg rə fi, bi- /


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He was also a friend of Caitlyn Jenner and helped write the former athlete’s motivational book “Finding the Champion Within,” according to his biography.

From Los Angeles Times • Jun. 10, 2026

He left a biography of Hölderlin on his desk with this sentence underlined: “Sometimes this genius goes dark and sinks down into the bitter well of his heart.”

From The Wall Street Journal • Jun. 5, 2026

In a 2015 biography, author Ashlee Vance described Musk as "a confrontational know-it-all" with an "abundant ego".

From BBC • Jun. 4, 2026

She listed literary fiction, memoir, biography, and essay collections as the defining genres of the smaller size books.

From Los Angeles Times • May 27, 2026

Over the summer I read a biography of the anarchist Emma Goldman.

From "Bad Boy" by Walter Dean Myers




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