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  2. Template:Biography - Wikipedia

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    Wikipedia is not a soapbox for individuals to espouse their views. However, views held by politicians, writers, and others may be summarized in their biography only to the extent those views are covered by reliable sources that are independent of the control of the politician, writer, etc.

  3. Wikipedia : Manual of Style/Biography

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    The simplest example is someone who continued to reside in their country of origin: Daniel Boone (November 2, 1734 [O.S. October 22] – September 26, 1820) was an American pioneer and frontiersman; The second example is someone who emigrated as a child and continued to identify as a citizen of their adopted country:

  4. Wikipedia : Biographies of living persons

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    Example: A politician is alleged to have had an affair. It is denied, but multiple major newspapers publish the allegations, and there is a public scandal. The allegation belongs in the biography, citing those sources. It should state only that the politician was alleged to have had the affair, not that the affair actually occurred.

  5. Biography - Wikipedia

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    The information can come from "oral history, personal narrative, biography and autobiography" or "diaries, letters, memoranda and other materials". [25] The central aim of biographical research is to produce rich descriptions of persons or "conceptualise structural types of actions", which means to "understand the action logics or how persons ...

  6. Life writing - Wikipedia

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    Life writing is an expansive genre that primarily deals with the purposeful recording of personal memories, experiences, opinions, and emotions for different ends. While what actually constitutes life writing has been up for debate throughout history, it has often been defined through the lens of the history of the autobiography genre as well as the concept of the self as it arises in writing.

  7. Flannery O'Connor - Wikipedia

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    O'Connor was born on March 25, 1925, in Savannah, Georgia, the only child of Edward Francis O'Connor, a real estate agent, and Regina Cline, both of Irish descent. [3] [4] As an adult, she remembered herself as a "pigeon-toed child with a receding chin and a you-leave-me-alone-or-I'll-bite-you complex". [5]

  8. List of narrative forms - Wikipedia

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    Novella – a written, fictional, prose narrative normally longer than a short story but shorter than a novel. Parable – a succinct, didactic story, in prose or verse, which illustrates one or more instructive lessons or principles. Play – a story that is told mostly through dialogue and is meant to be performed on stage.

  9. Benjamin Franklin - Wikipedia

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    Personal details; Born: January 17, 1706 ... for example, over one-third of ... he made short journeys through different parts of England, ...