The word "biography" is correct and usable in written English.
You can use it to refer to a written account of someone's life, usually written by another person. For example, "This biography of Albert Einstein reveals fascinating details about his life."
Singer and drag artist Joey Arias sees this Meltdown as a kind of biography of both Antony and the scene that nurtured him.
But already, some asked "what lurked under the surface", not least because of the young writer's choice of subject for a biography.
However, speaking at the launch of his new biography at Cheltenham Literature Festival on Thursday, the former Tottenham and Arsenal defender admitted he is considering taking a more active role.
The passion for books is palpable, and the life of the mind celebrated whether fiction or cookbooks, poetry, biography or science, or politics, or philosophy or architecture or history – and always an air of anticipation, especially this year when the referendum on Scottish independence will be just a month away, and the festival an arena for debate just as it was last year.
Other new documentaries announced by BBC2 on Monday include This is Tottenham, that will feature the constituency's MP David Lammy shining a spotlight on the area, 30 years after the Broadwater Riots, and a biography by Dan Gordon about George Best, 10 years after the footballer's death.
At the moment I'm reading Pauline Prescott's biography.
Wyatt's authorised biography, Different Every Time, is published next week by Serpent's Tail, and a compilation of the same name follows in November on Domino.
If that were the case then the six pieces of sculpture here look a little like a short biography in wood and stone.
One of the minor literary hits on the Parisian scene in recent months has been a biography of actor-journalist Alain Pacadis, the "punk dandy" who presided over Le Palace, the nightclub that was the Studio 54 of Paris in the 1980s.
Then, in 1983, came Donald Spoto's biography, The Dark Side of Genius.
Nelly, one of France's richest women, dismisses Consuelo in a dozen words, and Consuelo disappeared from subsequent books on Saint-Exupéry's life until I "rehabilitated" her in my 1993 biography.
