Biography
Subject
Subject Source: Loc Genre/Form Terms For Library And Archival Materials (Lcgft)
Scope Note: Variants: Authorized biographies // Biographical notes // Biographical sketches // Biography // Histories, Life // Life histories // Sketches, Biographical // Unauthorized biographies.Broader Terms: Creative nonfiction // Informational works.
Narrower Term: Autobiographies // Avadana stories // Bio-bibliographies // Biographical comics // Biographical drama // Biographical poetry // Biographical radio programs // Hagiographies.
(From ODLIS: online dictionary for library and information science, July 26, 2014): A carefully researched, relatively full narrative account of the life of a specific person or closely related group of people, written by another. The biographer selects the most interesting and important events with the intention of elucidating the character and personality of the biographee and placing the subject's life in social, cultural, and historical context. An authorized biography, written with the consent and sometimes the cooperation of its subject, may be less critical than an unauthorized biography).
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Parks College: Legacy of an Aviation Pioneer, 1990, 1990
Item — Special collection MC-19, Book: 208, Call No.: TL 560.2 .P37 F33 1990
Identifier: 20060304
Scope and Contents
Document Type: Book (Historical Study).Purpose: Informational.Authority: Author Expertise.Scope (from the Prologue): "Parks College is unique among the world's educational institutions. Its founder, Oliver L. Parks, was one of the pioneer aviators with the vision to see the need to build the College and to nurture it in time of peace and war. He proved to be even more visionary when he gave the school to Saint Louis University, thereby making it part of...
Dates:
Copyright: 1990; Publication: 1990