Biography

A biography is a description of an individual person's life, including short articles, multivolume book works, radio documentaries, and films. The term also describes the scholarly discipline[?] of creating such descriptions. See List of biographers for well-known exponents of biography as a genre.

In Encyclopedian, biographies are collected under List of people, they are also found in several higher level articles, such as:

• authors
• chemists
• scientists
• mathematicians
• explorers
• inventors
• artists
• politicians
• kings and queens[?]
• economists
• actors and actresses
• popes
• musical groups and singers[?]

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