Biography

A biography is a description of an individual person's life, including short articles, multivolume book works, radio documentaries, and films. The term also describes the [scholarly discipline]? of creating such descriptions.

In Wikipedia, biographies are collected under Biographical Listing, they are also found in several higher level articles, such as:

• chemists
• scientists
• mathematicians
• explorers
• inventors
• artists

People who contributed work to Wikipedia also often describe themselves (see the list of Recent Changes).

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