Write a biography

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.