Anyone writing a biography needs to find meaning and purpose in what they are doing, said Roger C. Flick in his class about writing biographies for pioneer ancestors. The class 'Guidelines for Writing ...

The biography you write for a company or personal work-related website acts as a form of advertising that can help colleagues, a current or potential employer or clients to quickly determine if you're ...

On the first page of Sarah Ruden’s biography of Vergil, she states the problem that any biographer of the ancient poet and author of the Aeneid faces: We know almost nothing about him. “The man is ...

Crafting a compelling biography is more than just a professional formality—it’s an opportunity to showcase your personality, professionalism, and the unique qualities that make you an ideal candidate ...

In his recent chronicle of Freud’s life Becoming Freud: the Making of a Psychoanalyst (2014), Adam Phillips expresses a skeptical view of biography, arguing it’s a perniciously misleading fiction (136 ...

‘To be a biographer you must tie yourself up in lies, concealments, hypocrisies,” Freud wrote to Arnold Zweig in 1936. “Biographical truth is not to be had, and even if it were to be had, we could not ...

‘WHAT is biography for? What useful purpose does it serve? Why should one write it? What is its actual importance in the field of literature? Above all, what is autobiography for, and what proper ...

Below left: Berg holds a photograph of Wilson used in his 1910 campaign for governor of New Jersey. Although he has been researching and thinking about Wilson for 35 years, he hasn't yet reached a ...

Shane Warne has lived his professional life in the public eye. Does this make it more difficult for a biographer to tell his story? AAP Image/Mal Fairclough Virginia Woolf – so Hermione Lee writes in ...