She has also penned sympathetic biographies of Strindberg and Munch. In her latest work, she offers an "equally stout defence" of the French painter Paul Gauguin – today widely regarded as an ...

Biographical writing constitutes a category of literary engagements that are explored in academia because they are helpful in revealing the network of events that make up the human world. As a genre ...

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Biographies and autobiographies are both types of non-fiction stories about someone’s life. They are both based in fact but there are some key differences between them. Watch this video in which ...

A biography is a non-fiction text about someone's life. Biographies are true pieces of text, based on fact, so biographers (the people who write biographies) have to do a lot of research.

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