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Are autobiographies always non fiction

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A genuine autobiography, or indeed any biography, is a work of nonfiction. It would be possible to write a work of fiction in the form of a biography (for example, "Tarzan Alive" by Philip Jose Farmer) but in that case it is not a true biography.

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