Section A
BIOGRAPHY
More factual than an autobiography
Gives the flavour of a person’s life/a day/a specific
moment or particular moments
To learn about the lives of other people – their loves,
their peeves, their hopes, their sorrows, their highs and
lows, their successes and failures, their trials and
tribulations…
Celebrities, royalty, nobility, achievers, notorious
criminals, historical personages, politicians, movers and
shakers are those whose biographies have been penned.
Key Ingredients:
The writer’s fascination with her/his subject
Facts and details from the subject’s life
The use of the third person
Putting a person’s life in some kind of order
Being innovative – by not just using a chronological
narrative but also going back and forth in time to create
more reader interest (flashback and flash forward)
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