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What is your storyline?

The need for a biography and it's  paradigms. In this age of information overload, it can be hard for a seeker of knowledge to determine what to prioritize. The biography of a person highlights their goals, works, culture and other significant events in their life. This makes it easier for others to relate with the person, which in turn gives clarity to the thoughts in the seeker’s mind. Is biography a narrative or something more? Biographies symbolize several things, depending on who is reading them and why. A monumental biography is not just a chronological list of events that happened to someone. Rather, it should weave a narrative and tell a story in almost the same way a novel does. In this way, biography differs from the rest of nonfiction. As biographer Richard Holmes, once wrote that his work was:  writing about the pursuit of that fleeting figure in such a way as to bring them alive in the present Biographies are an essential study and aid us to contextualize the world