Whole life biography

Memoirs, autobiographies, and biographies are three ways to tell a non-fiction story (generally) about a specific person.

The key word here is non-fiction.

Whole life biography

Everything in these pieces must be true and accurate to the best of the author’s abilities. This means if you are writing about someone else, you cannot say what they were thinking or feeling definitively because you can’t know that.

You can, of course, interview them and ask; however readers may not believe you. Readers like memoirs, autobiographies, and biographies because they focus on a single person’s real, non-fiction life.

Biography

Author Is Not the Subject

If you are telling another person’s life story, then you are writing a biography.

For the purpose of this blog post, the term “biography” does not refer to the “about the author” section found in books, programs, and other informational packets. Out of the three styles of recounting the story of