biography

biography

biography (an account of the series of events making up a person's life)

Born

470 BC

Class

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person; actor; genre; object; Book Genre;  …

attribute; attribute, relation or class; concept with variable precision; conceptual object; True Knowledge object; website type; movie story contributor; genre of an animated visual medium; subject area; broadcast genre; award discipline

Examples

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Into the Wild; The Rise of Theodore Roosevelt; Cheaper by the Dozen; Heavier Than Heaven; Profiles in Courage;  …

A Beautiful Mind; Disco Bloodbath; King Leopold's Ghost; Tom Cruise; The Missionary Position; The Secret History of the Mongols; Wild Swans; The Hidden Hitler; NNDB; Before Night Falls; Private Parts; Mountains Beyond Mountains; Elvis and Me; Sadako and the Thousand Paper Cranes; Mohammad, Messenger of God; A General History of the Pyrates; On Famous Women; Romulus, My Father; A Man Named Dave; ICon: Steve Jobs; The King Never Smiles; Come as You Are: The Story of Nirvana; Inside Out: A Personal History of Pink Floyd; A Mathematician's Apology; Mao: The Unknown Story; Lives of the Most Excellent Painters, Sculptors, and Architects; Bruce Lee: The Man Only I Knew; Follow the Rabbit-Proof Fence; Sirah Rasul Allah; The Power Broker; The Surgeon of Crowthorne; Men of Mathematics; Wired; The Lives of John Lennon; A Memoir of Jane Austen; Red Star Over China; A Vulgar Display Of Power; Life with Judy Garland: Me and My Shadows; Behind the Paint; The Truth About Uri Geller; The Enormous Room; The Autobiography of Alice B. Toklas; Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation; Storm of Steel; The Bad Popes; The Years of Lyndon Johnson; Desert Flower; Mao Tse-tung: Ruler of Red China; Lifting Shadows; Agricola; Heath Ledger: His Beautiful Life and Mysterious Death; The Secret Life of a Satanist; Walt Disney: Hollywood's Dark Prince; Godspeed; Prithviraj Raso; Ana's Story; Miss America; Eminent Victorians; Portrait of a Marriage; The Big Fellow; Life of Johnson; Shakespeare; Belles on Their Toes; Prisoner of the State: The Secret Journal of Premier Zhao Ziyang; Things the Grandchildren Should Know; The Real Lincoln; One Man's Wilderness: An Alaskan Odyssey; Eikon Basilike; Brief Lives; Lincoln the Unknown; Heaven and Hell: My Life in the Eagles; Mandela: The Authorised Biography; L. Ron Hubbard; You Can't Win; Life of Homer; Free as in Freedom: Richard Stallman's Crusade for Free Software; The Metaphysical Club; ValueTales; Muhammad: Legacy of a Prophet; Stuart: A Life Backwards; Malcolm X: A Life of Reinvention; Theodore Rex; De Casibus Virorum Illustrium; James Joyce; The Truth About Hillary; Tuva or Bust!; Take Another Little Piece of My Heart; Marie Antoinette: The Journey; American Terrorist; Bare-faced Messiah; Between a Rock and a Hard Place; My Dark Places; The Mayor of Castro Street; Twenty Five Years of an Artist; Me and My Shadows: A Family Memoir; The Man Who Loved Only Numbers; My Brother; The Measure of a Man; Outrageous Betrayal; Biko; Tom Cruise: Unauthorized; Moe Howard and the Three Stooges; Siyer-i Nebi; Einstein and Religion; Anne Frank: The Biography; Britten's Children; The Real Frank Zappa Book; Undaunted Courage; Prayers for Bobby: A Mother's Coming to Terms with the Suicide of Her Gay Son; Black Edelweiss; American Goddess at the Rape of Nanking; Love is a Mix Tape; Lincoln: A Photobiography; Weep No More, My Lady; Joseph Smith: Rough Stone Rolling; Vita Karoli Magni; Bono on Bono; The Misfits: A Study of Sexual Outsiders; Louis Riel; The Great Houdini; Dutch: A Memoir of Ronald Reagan; My Life in Art; Wishful Drinking; Ancient accounts of Homer; The Far Side of Paradise; Making of a Godol; The Image: Volume 1; Life of Apollonius of Tyana; Two Lives; Who's Who in American Art; Samurai Widow; Duel in the Sun; The Two of Us: My Life with John Thaw; No Man Knows My History: The Life of Joseph Smith; D. H. Lawrence: An Unprofessional Study; Katharine the Great; The Man Who Knew Infinity; De mulieribus claris; Hitchhiker: A Biography of Douglas Adams; The Life of Charlotte Brontë; Chicago May, Queen of the Blackmailers; Daniel Boone; Life of Guru Nanak through Pictures; Stonewall Jackson and the American Civil War; Tom Cruise: All the World's a Stage; Dragonhead; Mary, Queen of Scots; Charles Bukowski: Locked in the Arms of a Crazy Life; HP Lovecraft; The Secret Mulroney Tapes; My Brother; Wizard, the Life and Times of Nikola Tesla; Lawrence of Arabia: The Authorized Biography of T.E. Lawrence; Marwa and Al Majnoun Al Faransi; The Spirit of St. Louis; The Color of Truth; Muhammad at Medina; Muhammad at Mecca; Eminent Lives; My Philosophical Development; Monica's Story; The Nature of Alexander; Rediscovering Homer; Diego et Frida; Baden-Powell; The Beatles: The Biography; Beethoven: The Universal Composer; Courage: Eight Portraits; Elvis and Gladys; American Creation: Triumphs and Tragedies at the Founding of the Republic; Into the Mouth of the Cat; Brigham Young: American Moses; A Life of Mahomet and History of Islam to the Era of the Hegira; Courtney Love: The Real Story; Sid!; The Headmaster; Braunbuch; The Words; Lovecraft; The Two Worlds of William March; Queen of the Elephants; History of Friedrich II of Prussia; Backbeat; Frida: A Biography of Frida Kahlo; Curly; Hello, I Must Be Going!; Ar-Raheeq Al-Makhtum; Joseph Banks: A Life; Krishnamurti: The Years of Awakening; The History of Joseph Smith by His Mother; Burnet: A Life; A Beautiful Child; Arrow in the Blue; Harshacharita; Howard Phillips Lovecraft; Into the Wild; Charlie Wilson's War; Gandhi; JFK; Amadeus; Raging Bull; The Elephant Man; Elizabeth; Downfall; Ed Wood; Gia; Finding Neverland; Malcolm X; The Last Emperor; Selena; Control; Mask; Factory Girl; The Doors; Domino; Scent of a Woman; Anthony Burgess; The Basketball Diaries; Siegfried Sassoon; Pirates of Silicon Valley; Spartacus; Tuesdays with Morrie; The New World; Patton; Nixon; Capote; Born on the Fourth of July; La Bamba; The Last Temptation of Christ; The Express; Mommie Dearest; 24 Hour Party People; Serpico; Out of Africa; Lean on Me; My Left Foot; Dragon; John Adams; Shine; Julie & Julia; Good Night, and Good Luck.; Confessions of an Economic Hit Man; Last Days; The Libertine; The People vs. Larry Flynt; Walking Tall; Hitler; Naked Lunch; The World's Fastest Indian; Amazing Grace; Men of Honor; Radio; Wyatt Earp; Quills; Reds; Seven Years in Tibet; Chaplin; Goya's Ghosts; Cry Freedom; Before Night Falls; Basquiat; Ned Kelly; Michael Collins; The Messenger; Antwone Fisher; Kundun; Roots: The Saga of an American Family; A Guide to Recognizing Your Saints; Henry & June; Bugsy; Miss Potter; The Temptations; Yankee Doodle Dandy; The Straight Story; What We Do Is Secret; Total Eclipse; The Buddy Holly Story; 1492: Conquest of Paradise; The Last Station; A Man for All Seasons; El Cantante; The Greatest Story Ever Told; Nausea; Johnny Tremain; Hoffa; What's Love Got to Do with It; Sergeant York; The Lion in Winter; Vincent; Norma Rae; Coal Miner's Daughter; Prayers for Bobby; The Life and Death of Peter Sellers; The Madness of King George; 10 Rillington Place; Invincible; James Dean; Night of the Living Dummy; The Alamo; Il Postino; Julia; Sex and the City; I Shot Andy Warhol; Mrs. Brown; Angela's Ashes; Mockingbird Don't Sing; Great Balls of Fire!; Rated X; American Splendor; Wilde; Veronica Guerin; Why Do Fools Fall in Love; Salvador; Anne Frank; Talk to Me; 8 Seconds; De-Lovely; Beyond the Sea; Permanent Midnight; BAADASSSSS!; Il Divo; Tucker; Redemption; Backbeat; Capturing the Friedmans; The Mirror; Pierrepoint; Max; The Krays; Moulin Rouge; Surely You're Joking, Mr. Feynman!; Elizabeth; La Vie En Rose; Iris; Hilary and Jackie; Andrei Rublev; Andre; The Passion of Joan of Arc; Topsy-Turvy; Cleopatra; Without Limits; Frances; Brother Sun, Sister Moon; Shadowlands; Luther; George Wallace; Wild Hearts Can't Be Broken; Prefontaine; The Pride of the Yankees; Star 80; Factotum; Frankie and Alice; Cromwell; King of Kings; Introducing Dorothy Dandridge; Cobb; The Desert Fox: The Story of Rommel; Crumb; The General; The Last Time I Committed Suicide; In Love and War; The Bunker; Somebody Up There Likes Me; Nowhere in Africa; Against the Ropes; Wiseguy; The Audrey Hepburn Story; Bound for Glory; Main Street; Hunger; The Great Ziegfeld; To Hell and Back; Lenny; Borstal Boy; Music Within; Illusions; Caravaggio; Our Lady of Victory; When Did You Last See Your Father?; Prick Up Your Ears; Mishima; Knute Rockne, All American; Owning Mahowny; Bettie Page; Manolete; Impromptu; Nowhere Boy; Phantom Punch; 3: The Dale Earnhardt Story; The Honeymoon Killers

Died

399 BC

Parent Class

written record

Types

autobiography

Wikipedia Page

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Biography

Experts

Ricardo Lancaster-Jones y Verea

Age at Death

71 years old

Did

die

Theme of

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Into the Wild, Wild Swans, The Woman Warrior, What Do You Care What Other People Think?, Cider with Rosie,  …

The Devils of Loudun, The Flivver King, Autobiography of a Brown Buffalo, The Revolt of the Cockroach People, WebBiographies, Daniel Boone, Darwin and His Great Discovery, Baden-Powell, Into the Mouth of the Cat, The Fatal Englishman, Howard Phillips Lovecraft, Andrew Carnegie, Bread of exile, The Russian album, American Scoundrel, Marse Henry

Depictions

English

Wordnet Synset ID

"106515827"

Freebase ID

"/guid/9202a8c04000641f8000000000009db5"

OpenCyc ID

"Mx4rvtn4MZwpEbGdrcN5Y29ycA"

DBPedia URI

http://dbpedia.org/resource/Biography

Aliases, Rare Terms

"life"

Freebase Primary MID

"/m/017fp"