What Is a Biography?
A biography is an account of a person's life written by someone else. It should not be confused with an autobiography, which is a person's own account of their life, written by him or her.
To write a good biography, you'll need to take notes about the person you are writing about. That'll mean reading a few books about the person, or interviewing your subject if he or she is someone you know. You'll need information on the following:
- Early life
- Childhood
- Adulthood
- Hometown/country
- Path to fame
- Current life (if they're still alive)
- Later life (if they're no longer alive)
- Your feelings about the person
You'll use these notes as the basis for Amelia Earhart's biography, but you'll need to know how to put them into paragraph form.