Book Awards
Several countries offer an annual prize for writing a biography such as the:
- Drainie-Taylor Biography Prize – Canada
- National Biography Award – Australia
- Pulitzer Prize for Biography or Autobiography – United States
- Whitbread Prize for Best Biography – United Kingdom
- J. R. Ackerley Prize for Autobiography – United Kingdom
- Prix Goncourt de la Biographie – France.
Different Types Of Biographies
A. popular biographies
B. historical biographies
C. literary biographies
D. reference biographies
E. fictional biographies
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