0 the life story of a person written by someone else:
He wrote a biography of Winston Churchill.
1 the story of the life of a person written by someone else, or the area of literature relating to books that describe such stories:
This biography offers a few glimpses of his life before he became famous.
Her biography revealed that she was not as rich as everyone thought.
The biography is woven from the many accounts which exist of things she did.
The strength of the notion of the cultural biography, in my mind, is that it provides us with a way to escape from these preoccupations.
The algorithm takes a set of earthly biographies as input and produces a set of improved resurrection biographies as output.
However, an annotation of the essays, together with a more detailed biography, would have increased its value for subsequent scholarship.