This document discusses different types of biographical narratives. It describes full-length biographies as covering a person's entire life from birth to death, and possibly including family trees and timelines. Full-length biographies can be single or multi-volume. Popular biographies focus on famous people's lives for mass consumption, literary biographies are about writers' lives written by other writers, and historical biographies examine historical figures' lives and impacts by historians.

1. BIOGRAPHICAL
NARRATIVES
Biographical Narratives can be classified
according to their length, scope, and
amplitude into the full-length biography, the
profile, the character sketch, and the
interview story. The full length biography can
either be single-volume or multi-volume, and
can be further subdivided on the basis of the
subject into the popular biography, the literary
biography, and the historical biography.

2. BIOGRAPHY
 Derived from the word “bios” means life and
“graphein” means writing
 It is basically the narrative of a person’s life
written b someone else in contrast to an
autobiography which is a chronicle of a
person’s life written by the author himself or
herself.

3. FULL LENGTH BIOGRAPHY
 Typically cover the entirety of the featured
person’s existence, covering all the
significant events surrounding his or her life
from womb to the tomb, and usually includes
a family tree and chronology of milestones in
its appendices to further guide potential
readers of the book.

4. FULL LENGTH BIOGRAPHY
 An ideal biographer must have necessary
patience and stamina, as well as the clear
vision and powerful imagination, to construct
or put together a more or less truthful
narrative of the subject’s life. That includes
his or her wishes, as well as fears and
apprehensions, since in reality only God can
accurately account a hundred percent
anyone’s entire existence.

5. POPULAR BIOGRAPHY
 Refers to the story of a famous and/or
successful person – a show business
personality, a professional athlete, a
business tycoon, a political leader, a fashion
celebrity, a reigning monarch, or even a
serial killer- which is meant for popular or
mass consumption.

6. POPULAR BIOGRAPHY
 The main purpose of the popular biographer
is to disclose or reveal to the most number of
people the personal tale of the public figure
he or she intends to immortalize, he or she
tends to focus on the main action of he
narrative s as well as the nitty –gritty details,
and to forgo the creation of mood and
atmosphere, and the other elements that
differentiate him or her from historical
biography.

7. LITERARY BIOGRAPHY AND THE HISTORICAL
BIOGRAPHY
 These are not intended for popular or mass
consumption, so they need not cater to the
common people’s fondness for gossip,
rumor, and hearsay.
 Literary Biography is defined by Cristina
Pantoja Hidalgo, foremost practitioner of
creative nonfiction in the Philippines, as a
narrative of the life of a literary writer written
by another literary writer (ex. The life of
Edgar Allan Poe)

8. LITERARY BIOGRAPHY AND THE HISTORICAL
BIOGRAPHY
 Historical Biography may be defined as a
narrative of the existence of a historical
figure written by another writer, usually a
historian, who is interested not only in the
personal circumstances and historic events
that have shaped his or her subject , but also
on how his or her subject has shaped history
in return. (Ex. The life story of Dr. Jose Rizal
and his contribution to Philippine
independence)