• An account of the series of events making up a person's life
• A written account of a person's life.
• A book about a person written by some other person.
• A written account of a person's life, actions, or character. A biographer is one who writes such an account, a biographee is one about whom the account is written.
• An autobiography is an account of a person's life written by himself or herself.
• A documented account of a person's life.
• The life story of a person that is written by another person either as a book or journal article.
• A carefully researched, relatively full account of the facts of the life of a particular person, or closely related group of people, written by another. The person written about is the biographee. As in any historical work, the biographer presents, in continuous narrative, the most interesting and important events, usually with the aim of elucidating character, personality, and social context.
• Source that provides a written account of a person's life or a group of literature concerned with people's lives.
• Author's version of the history of a person's life. The author of a biography is called a "biographer."
• A non-fiction work detailing the life of a person.
• A source that will give background and other personal information about a person.

The list of books 

• The Undertaking: Life Studies from the Dismal Trade by Thomas Lynch
• Other Colors: Essays and a Story by Orhan Pamuk, Maureen Freely (translator)
• Funny in Farsi: A Memoir of Growing Up Iranian in America by Firoozeh Dumas
• American Shaolin: Flying Kicks, Buddhist Monks, and the Legend of Iron Crotch: An Odyssey in the New China by Matthew Polly
• Year in Nam: A Native American Soldier's Story by Leroy TeCube
• The Norton Book of Friendship by Eudora Welty (editor), Ronald A. Sharp (editor)
• Bridging the Class Divide and Other Lessons for Grassroots Organizing by Linda Stout
• The Longest Trip Home: A Memoir by John Grogan
• The Imprisoned Guest: Samuel Howe and Laura Bridgman, the Original Deaf-Blind Girl by Elisabeth Gitter
• Touch and Go: A Memoir by Studs Terkel
• Call Me Ted by Bill Burke, Ted Turner
• American Lion: Andrew Jackson in the White House by Jon Meacham
• Swimming to Antarctica: Tales of a Long-Distance Swimmer by Lynne Cox
• Space: A Memoir by Jesse Lee Kercheval
• A Child of Hitler: Germany in the Days When God Wore a Swastika by Alfons Heck
• The Hungry Ocean: A Swordboat Captain's Journey by Linda Greenlaw
• Timmy's in the Well: The Jon Provost Story by Jon Provost, Laurie Jacobson
• Stubborn Twig: Three Generations in the Life of a Japanese American Family by Lauren Kessler
• The American Journey of Barack Obama by The Editors of Life
• Too Fat to Fish by Artie Lange, Anthony Bozza
• Lou Gehrig: The Luckiest Man by David A. Adler
• Almost a Woman by Esmeralda Santiago
• Until Death Do Us Part: My Struggle to Reclaim Colombia by Ingrid Betancourt
• Twentieth-Century Writers 1950-1990 by Tom Verde
• Mary Todd Lincoln: A Biography by Jean H. Baker
• The Blind Side: Evolution of a Game by Michael Lewis
• Jesus Land: A Memoir by Julia Scheeres
• Sugar in the Raw: Voices of Young Black Girls in America by Rebecca Carroll
• A Twilight Struggle: The Life of John Fitzgerald Kennedy by Barbara Harrison, Daniel Terris
• And I Worked at the Writer's Trade: Chapters of Literary History 1918-1978 by Malcolm Cowley