Biography

A biography, or simply bio, is a detailed description of a person's life. It involves more than just the basic facts like education, work, relationships, and death; it portrays a person's experience of these life events. Unlike a profile or curriculum vitae (résumé), a biography presents a subject's life story, highlighting various aspects of his or her life, including intimate details of experience, and may include an analysis of the subject's personality. Biographical works are usually non-fiction, but fiction can also be used to portray a person's life. One in-depth form of biographical coverage is called legacy writing. Works in …

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UCP: University of Calgary Press · 15 May 2024 English

The Briscoe-MacDougall family retire to their lakeside cabin each summer. This annual vacation is at time to unwind and refresh, a time to relax away from the hustle and bustle …


UBC: UBC Press · 15 May 2024 English

The old neo-liberal economic theory that deregulation will solve the problem of unaffordable housing is being contradicted by reality, with ugly consequences for social cohesion, mental health, urban vitality, and …

according to journalist Robert Caro’s famous biography of the man, intentionally drove disruptive limited-access


MQUP: McGill-Queen's University Press · 14 May 2024 English

Every lover of music finds themselves, at privileged moments, in ecstasy – certain that what they are hearing has captured, somehow, an incontrovertible truth. Bach’s Architecture of Gratitude explores this …

Gregory I, as John the Deacon argues in a later biography, liturgical reform was clearly central to his


MQUP: McGill-Queen's University Press · 7 May 2024 English

The Children’s Hour (1961) was the first mainstream US film to feature a lesbian character in a leading role. Julia Erhart explores how the film’s conception, production, and reception reveal …

because of her frank approach to her own sexual biography. In her own life as a public intellectual, Hellman independence more broadly. In her richly contextualized biography about Hellman, Alice Kessler-Harris describes demonstrated interest, evident elsewhere in her biography, in social justice issues involving racial minorities


UCP: University of Calgary Press · 30 April 2024 English

Limited Verse is now universally recognized as a valuable case study in the short-lived literary arts of New English. The translated poems in this collection offer a fascinating portal to …


DDN: Dundurn Press · 23 April 2024 English

At the end of World War II, a young Japanese Canadian would stand trial and face execution for having committed war crimes and betraying his country.One of the most bizarre …

—China—Hong Kong. | CSH: Japanese Canadians—Biography. Classification: LCC KZ1186.I56 B76 2024 | DDC


BOU: Boulder Books · 20 April 2024 English

Marjorie Doyle grew up in a life of privilege in St. John’s, Newfoundland’s capital city. Her father, a middle-aged prosperous businessman, married Mary Foley, a young woman who had escaped …

Mothers—Newfoundland and Labrador—Biography. | LCSH: Newfoundland and Labrador— Biography. | LCGFT: Biographies.


DRV: Durvile Publications · 20 April 2024 English

“The Ascenti AI Project” is about AI and Creativity. Ascenti: Humans Opening to AI book features a diverse group of professionals, known as “creatives,” who specialize in visual art, writing, …

Philosophy of Life and Creativity AN EXTENDED BIOGRAPHY Dagmar


AMO: Association of Municipalities of Ontario · 18 April 2024 English

Board members have a legal responsibility to manage the business and affairs of the corporation and must act in the best interests of the association. [...] Purpose The purpose of …

• Candidates may submit a headshot and short biography/statement that will be posted to the official


MQUP: McGill-Queen's University Press · 16 April 2024 English

hunt down Charlotte Haldane, one of the first women on Fleet Street; and how she came to write the biography of Max Reinhardt, the man behind the finest English publishing house of the mid-twentieth century

Phil Gold 29 Ghost Stories On Writing Biography Judith AdamsonJudith Adamson McGill-Queen’s • London • Chicago GHOST STORIES On Writing Biography bMcGill-Queen’s University Press 2024 isbn Publication Title: Ghost stories : on writing biography / Judith Adamson. Names: Adamson, Judith, author biographers— Canada—Biography. | lcsh: Biographers—Canada—Biography. | lcsh: Biography as a literary form Pursuit, Richard Holmes’s reflections on writing biography. When he finished his first book, about Percy Bysshe


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