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biography

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


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According to a biography on his official website, his father was a mechanical engineer, and his mother had been a dancer before becoming a nurse during the war.

From BBC ● Oct. 5, 2026

And I know there’s no James Boswell coming to write my biography.

From MarketWatch ● Sep. 29, 2026

Born on July 9, 1935, in Grand Roy, Grenada, Slinger moved with his family to Trinidad when he was 1 year old, according to his official biography.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 29, 2026

Her biography of Stevie Nicks, “Lessons & Lace,” published by Penguin Random House, is out now.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 28, 2026

“His name is Peter Sinkowitz. He’s five years old. I’m doing his biography, sort of.”

From "Stargirl" by Jerry Spinelli

Mr. Worthen, an emeritus professor at the University of Nottingham who has written biographies of Robert Schumann, D.H.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 25, 2026

As well as "Succession", the five-times married tycoon has been the subject of a spate of biographies, as well as a new Netflix documentary, "Dynasty: The Murdochs" which was released in March this year.

From Barron's ● Sep. 2, 2026

In between the book’s linked stories, Ms. Daanje inserts excerpts from those scant archives—Millicent’s letters, the poems and cryptic jottings from Eliza May’s notebooks—as well as passages from various later biographies of the Draydens.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 18, 2026

He published a number of autobiographical books, as well as biographies of John Wesley and William and Catherine Booth, the founders of the Salvation Army.

From BBC ● Jun. 14, 2026

This paragraph from Accidental Millionaire, one of the many Jobs biographies, gives us a sense of how extraordinary his childhood experiences were.

From "Outliers" by Malcolm Gladwell




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