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According to the Oxford Dictionary of Literary Terms, there are three types of biography. The most well-known is the autobiography. The autobiography recounts the life of the person writing it. Tina Fey’s Bossypants is a popular autobiography. Anne Frank’s The Diary of a Young Girl is perhaps the best-known autobiography of all time. Autobiographies are by necessity incomplete. For obvious reasons, the person writing one cannot record his or her own death. A biography, in contrast, tells the story of someone else’s life, usually the life of someone famous. Some biographies describe the life of a group or of an animal. The Presidents Club, for instance, describes how presidents and ex-presidents have both cooperated and clashed during the changing of the guard. Susan Orlean’s Rin Tin Tin tells the story of America’s most famous, and in his own way, influential dog. A memoir describes some aspect of the writer’s life and often involves the lives of friends and family. Readers tend to think that memoirs are non-fiction, but some memoir writers, like journalist Vivian Gornick, have argued that memoirs can be partially fictionalized if the account is true to the spirit of events. Gornick’s memoir of the relationship with her mother is titled Fierce Attachments, and she acknowledges having combined events to communicate a particular feeling or attitude. Love in Condition Yellow by Sophia Raday tells the story of a peace activist married to a military man during the Iraq War.

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