Definition: Works consisting of an account of the events, works, and achievements, personal and professional, during a person's life. It includes articles on the activities and accomplishments of living persons as well as the presentation of an obituary.
this heading is used as a Publication Type; check appropriate century tags; obituaries go here; biography as a subject is indexed under the main heading BIOGRAPHY AS TOPIC; CATALOG: use for individual and collective biographies. For autobiographies, use
See AlsoAutobiography; Biobibliography
Other names Historical Biography; Current Biog-Obit
