biography• She is the author of several books, including a biography of the artist Salvador Dali.• She's the author of three acclaimedbiographies.• 'Paul McCartney: Many Years from Now' is an authorizedbiography of the former Beatle by Barry Miles.• Moralcareers, as we have seen, are lives organised around exemplarybiographies.• But Wyler is barely more visible in his biography than in his films.• She wrote the first Kerouac biography in 1973.• No biographies have been written about him, and none ever will be.• Plowing through this masterpiece of biography, he was haunted by a question.• Isaac Deutscher's outstanding biographies of Stalin and Trotsky• This is a competent and well-researched biography.• Boswell's biography of Dr Johnson• Odo's biography was written by a monk who had little interest in the miraculous and much in practicalvirtues.• At first, these biographies were simply invented.• He has slammed an unauthorised biography which he claimscontains 'factualerrors'.• The third was a lengthy and dully-written biography of a late nineteenth-century general.
Originbiography
(1600-1700)Late Greekbiographia, from Greekbio- ( → BIO-) + -graphia“-graphy”
ADJECTIVE | VERB + BIOGRAPHY | PREPOSITIONADJECTIVE➤authorized, official正式授權的/正式認可的傳記▸➤unauthorized, unofficial未經授權的/未經正式認可的傳記▸➤brief, potted, short生平簡介;略傳;小傳◇The book gives potted biographies of all the major painters.這本書簡述了所有重要畫家的生平。➤full-length未刪節的傳記➤detailed詳細的傳記➤definitive最具權威的傳記➤new, recent新傳記;最新傳記➤celebrity名人傳記VERB + BIOGRAPHY➤work on, write寫傳記▸➤produce, publish出版傳記▸➤read讀傳記➤research研究傳記PREPOSITION➤biography by由⋯寫的傳記◇a biography by Antonia Fraser由安東尼婭・弗雷澤寫的傳記➤biography of關於⋯的傳記◇a biography of the former president前總統的傳記