[bahy-og-ruh-fee, bee-] 
| 1. | a written account of another person's life: the biography of Byron by Marchand. |
| 2. | an account in biographical form of an organization, society, theater, animal, etc. |
| 3. | such writings collectively. |
| 4. | the writing of biography as an occupation or field of endeavor. |
| bi·og·ra·phy (bī-ŏg'rə-fē) n. pl. bi·og·ra·phies
[Late Greek biographiā : Greek bio-, bio- + Greek -graphiā, -graphy.] |
The story of someone's life. The Life of Samuel Johnson, by James Boswell, and Abraham Lincoln, by Carl Sandburg, are two noted biographies. The story of the writer's own life is an autobiography.
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