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biography
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Scope note
Designates publications about biographies and about biographical writing as a literary genre. The branch of literature and history in which the lives of actual people are described and analysed (ODLIS).
User tips
For the biography of a specific person, combine 'biographies (form)' with person-as-subject field in OPAC.
Used for
life history
Narrower terms
autobiography
hagiography
Related terms
biographical dictionaries (form)
biographies (form)
Subject category
19.03 LITERARY GENRES
Indexing history
Added 2006. For publications indexed before 2006, see biographies (form).
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