Biography

Read 2 Corinthians 10-13

2 Corinthians 11:26 "In journeyings often, in perils of waters, in perils of robbers, in perils by mine own countrymen, in perils by the heathen, in perils in the city, in perils in the wilderness, in perils in the sea, in perils among false brethren;"

When we’re writing our own short bio to appear at the end of our article or query letter, we will want to highlight what will be of interest to the reader or what will make the editor reading it decide we are the right one to write the article. If we are writing our bio to appear at the end of our book, we can be a little longer and a little chattier, but still keeping what the reader might want most to know about us in mind.

We can write a longer bio for our blog, and depending on the subject, our blog may serve as a running autobiography. But if we’re interested in researching and writing about the lives of others, we have plenty of markets to sell our work to.

Some magazines want biographies of historical people and others will want a biography to go along with our interview of a celebrity or the person of note that our article is about. For book length biographies, it’s safer to stick to historical figures because living subjects may object to our writing so extensively about them.