It’s essential

To get an overall

Feel for your subject

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In many instances

Biographies are done

About people

But they can also be done

About any national icon

A well known building

Car manufacturer

Or disease

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It’s important 

To put your subject 

Into a historical perspective

Periods will be alluded to, are

WW1, the Great Depression

WW11, “the Red Scare”

Vietnam War

And the Sixties Revolution, etc

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If your subject

Is a person

Some questions

Will be in order -

His childhood years

Young adult interests

How was he educated?

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Other prominent

Areas of interest should be

Your subject’s hobbies

Friends, influences

On his life

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Was he fond of literature

history, philosophy, science?

What was known of him as a student?

How did his parents feel

about him?

Was he sickly? adventurous?

Did he travel to distant lands?

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Further questions of interest

When and how did he fall

In love?

What was his wife like?

How did she influence his character

and work?

Of what is he best known?

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At the end of such a review

An analysis will be in order

To put things into context

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Tying together

As it may

All of the lose ends

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