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  2. Biography - Wikipedia

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    A biography, or simply bio, is a detailed description of a person's life. It involves more than just basic facts like education, work, relationships, and death; it ...

  3. Portal:Biography - Wikipedia

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    A biography, or simply bio, is a detailed description of a person's life. It involves more than just basic facts like education, work, relationships, and death; it ...

  4. A History of the Life and Voyages of Christopher Columbus

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    From the perspective of constructivist literary critique: "Most of the critics who react this way, however, attack the work with counterevidence that is already present in Irving's text. The problem with the biography, therefore, is not that Irving presented only a partial portrait but rather that, in his ambivalence about the character of his ...

  5. Life of Samuel Johnson - Wikipedia

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    The text of this edition of Boswell's Life of Samuel Johnson, LL.D., broken down by year, is taken from the two-volume Oxford edition of 1904; in a few places I've corrected errors by comparing the text with that of G. B. Hill and L. F. Powell, 6 vols. (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1934-64), and with the second London edition (1793).

  6. Biography in literature - Wikipedia

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    When studying literature, biography and its relationship to literature is often a subject of literary criticism, and is treated in several different forms. Two scholarly approaches use biography or biographical approaches to the past as a tool for interpreting literature: literary biography and biographical criticism .

  7. Biographical criticism - Wikipedia

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    Biographical criticism is a form of literary criticism which analyzes a writer's biography to show the relationship between the author's life and their literary works. [2] Biographical criticism is often associated with historical-biographical criticism , [ 3 ] a critical method that "sees a literary work chiefly, if not exclusively, as a ...

  8. Charles Spurgeon - Wikipedia

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    Charles Haddon Spurgeon (19th June 1834 [1] – 31st January 1892) was an English Particular Baptist preacher.Spurgeon remains highly influential among Christians of various denominations, to some of whom he is known as the "Prince of Preachers."

  9. Theodore Beza - Wikipedia

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    Theodore Beza's birthplace in Vézelay. Theodore Beza was born on 24 June 1519 in Vézelay, in the province of Burgundy, France. [1] His father, Pierre de Bèze, bailiff of Vézelay, [1] descended from a Burgundian noble family; his mother, Marie Bourdelot, was known for her generosity. [2]