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Creative Nonfiction ------------------- #### #### #### BIOGRAPHICAL NARRATIVES: ##### [Biographical Narratives] a. **Full-length Biography** -- typically covers the entirety of the featured person9s existence from birth to death. Covering all significant events surrounding his or her...

Creative Nonfiction ------------------- #### #### #### BIOGRAPHICAL NARRATIVES: ##### [Biographical Narratives] a. **Full-length Biography** -- typically covers the entirety of the featured person9s existence from birth to death. Covering all significant events surrounding his or her life from womb to tomb. b. **Popular Biography** -- refers to the life story of a famous and/or successful person. That person may be a celebrity, a business tycoon, an athlete, a politician, a monarch, or a serial killer. c. **Literary Biography** -- a narrative of the life of a literary writer written by another literary writer, as defined by Cristina Pantoja Hidalgo d. **Historical Biography** -- 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. ##### [Profile] - It recreates the subject, makes it more alive on paper, gives the subject shape and meaning which causes us readers to meet and know that subject, that institution, that person. - It is shorter than a full-length biography. - A profile normally concentrates on a single aspect of a featured person9s life. ##### [Character Sketch] - It is shorter than a profile. - It can be described as a cameo or a miniature life story. ##### [Interview Story] - It follows the length of a typical newspaper or magazine article. - It requires some research and at least a couple of interviews. - It can be the product of just one meeting between the writer who is the interviewer and the subject who is the interviewee. #### #### AUTOBIOGRAPHICAL NARRATIVES: #### AUTOBIOGRAPHY, MEMOIR, DIARY, JOURNAL ##### [Autobiographical Narratives] - According to a dictionary of literary terms, it is an \