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An example use of biography in a speech by a native speaker of british english:
“… legacy their own biography of a story …”
Biography is a written account of a person's life.
the word biography occurs in english on average 8.2 times per one million words; this frequency warrants it to be in the study list for C1 level of language mastery according to CEFR, the Common European Framework of Reference.