Definition of biography and autobiography for kids
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A biography is the story of a person'slife.
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The word comes from the Greek words bios (which means life) and graphein (which means write). When the biography is written by the person it is about, it is called an autobiography.
A written biography is a part of literature.
Biographies can also be made as movies (often called biopics) or told as stories.
The oldest written biographies that historians have were written to record rulers' lives. Some were written in Assyria, ancient Babylonia, ancient Egypt and ancient Mesopotamia.
Definition of biography and autobiography for kids
Biographies were an early form of history. Another early form of biography was called hagiography, meaning writing about holy people.
In ancient China, a biography was one of the basic forms of a history book.
In India, biographies of Buddha and his reincarnated lives were written. In ancient Greece, people wrote biographies of people that were not rulers too. Xenophon wrote a biography of Socrates and gave this book the name