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Bibliography vs. Biography

Bibliography and Biography Definitions

Bibliography

A list of the works of a specific author or publisher.

Biography

An account of a person's life written, composed, or produced by another
A film biography of Adlai Stevenson.
An oral biography.

Bibliography

A list of writings relating to a given subject
A bibliography of Latin American history.

Biography

Biographies considered as a group, especially when regarded as a genre.

Bibliography

A list of writings used or considered by an author in preparing a particular work.

Biography

The writing, composition, or production of biographies
A career entirely devoted to biography.
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Bibliography

The description and identification of the editions, dates of issue, authorship, and typography of books or other written material.

Biography

A person's life story, especially one published.
There are many biographies of Benjamin Franklin.

Bibliography

A compilation of such information.

Biography

The art of writing this kind of story.

Bibliography

A section of a written work containing citations, not quotations, to all the books referred to in the work.

Biography

(transitive) To write a biography of.
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Bibliography

A list of books or documents relevant to a particular subject or author.

Biography

The written history of a person's life.

Bibliography

The study of the history of books in terms of their classification, printing and publication.

Biography

Biographical writings in general.

Bibliography

A history or description of books and manuscripts, with notices of the different editions, the times when they were printed, etc.

Biography

An account of the series of events making up a person's life
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Bibliography

A list of books or other printed works having some common theme, such as topic, period, author, or publisher.

Bibliography

A list of the published (and sometimes unpublished) sources of information referred to in a scholarly discourse or other text, or used as reference materials for its preparation.

Bibliography

The branch of library science dealing with the history and classification of books and other published materials.

Bibliography

A list of writings with time and place of publication (such as the writings of a single author or the works referred to in preparing a document etc.)

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