Non fiction biography

Literary non-fiction is a type of writing that has similar characteristics to fictional texts. Like fictional texts, literary non-fiction often has a main purpose to entertain but is an entertaining del av helhet of writing about real events rather than imaginary ones. They inform and provide factual data as well as entertaining their reader. Types of literary non-fiction include:

• Autobiographies and biographies
• Accounts of famous/historical events
• Blogs
• Essays
• Feature articles
• Travel writing

Autobiographies and biographies are forms of writing that are based on real people. An autobiography is where the writer writes about themselves whereas a biography is where the writer writes about someone else. Often, autobiographies and biographies are whole books that focus on someone’s entire life; however, they can also focus on a specific period of someone’s life, a particular event that occurred in their life, or their family and friends. They ca

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Non-fiction text types – WJECBiography

A biography is writing about someone’s life. If someone is writing about their own life it becomes an autobiography. These forms can also widen out to focus on a specific part of someone’s life, or their family.

A biography is usually written both to inform and to entertain. This means it is a mix of factual information and creative writing. The audience is usually made up of people who are interested in the person being written about. However, sometimes biographies of people who aren’t well known can be interesting because of an experience that they’ve had.

This is the opening paragraph of Claire Tomalin’s biography of Charles Dickens, the novelist. The young man she is describing is Dickens, aged 37.

14 January 1840, London. An inquest is being held at Marylebone Workhouse, a muddled complex of buildings spread over a large area between the Marylebone Road and Paddington Street. The Beadle, a parish officer responsible for