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An autobiographer writes a historical account of their own life, which is called an autobiography. When someone writes an account of someone's else's life, it is called a biography.
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An autobiography is a biography written by the person the story is about. Many famous people have written autobiographies, including Maya Angelou.
When someone else writes about someone who is deceased, it is called a biography.
A biography is where someone writes about a person I.E if i wrote about my brother where as an autobiography is if i wrote about myself.there is also a biography written on Steve Jobs.
A biography is a book about a person. An autobiography is a book which someone writes about himself or herself. A collected biography is a book about more than one person.
Because Bethany Hamilton wrote it herself. An autobiography is when a person writes about their own life experiences or such. A biography is when someone else writes about that person.
Autobiographies-when the main character wrote the book Biography-when someone else writes a book on someone's life
If the author is writing about his own past or life, the book is called an autobiography. If it is about the life of someone else it is called a biography. A person who writes an autobiography is an autobiographer.
A biography is the life story of a person. There was an half hour show on CBS called Biography. This was expanded into a hour long show on the A and E network. Now there is a Biography channel on basic cable that air one and two hour long shows about famous people, such as Abraham Lincoln and Tom Hanks. An autobiography is when a person writes their own life story about themselves, instead of a biography, where someone else writes about another person. If David McCullough writes a book about the life of President Franklin Delano Roosevelt, that a biography. If Oprah Winfrey writes a book about her life, that is an autobiography.
People who write biographies are people who knew/know the person, or is just interested in learning about the person. A biography is a story about a person's life. A person who writes biographies is called a biographer.If the person who the biography is about writes the biography, it is considered an autobiography.
Its called a 'Memoir'An author who writes about things that happened during his lifetime writes a(n): 'Memoir'I know this because I am studying it in school and also Autobiography is when the person writes about his/her life not about what happened in his/her lifetime.Biography is when a person writes about a actor, singer, a famous person or someone that else which is not them. Hope this helps