Literary biography

When studying literature, biography and its relationship to literature is often a subject of literary criticism, and is treated in several different forms.

Two scholarly approaches use biography or biographical approaches to the past as a tool for interpreting literature: literary biography and biographical criticism. Conversely, two genres of fiction rely heavily on the incorporation of biographical elements into their content: biographical fiction and autobiographical fiction.

Literary biography

A literary biography is the biographical exploration of individuals' lives merging historical facts with the conventions of narrative.^[1] Biographies about artists and writers are sometimes some of the most complicated forms of biography.^[2] Not only does the author of the biography have to write about the subject of the biography but also must incorporate discussion of the subject-author's literary works into the biography itself.^&#