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hagiographies

noun

plural of hagiography

as in biographies

disapproving a book about someone's life that makes it seem better than it really is or was a hagiography of the leader written by one of his closest confidants

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Recent Examples of hagiographies Their lives were recorded in the form of hagiographies, stories of the saints, often ornamented with folkloric motifs, focusing on marvelous adventures and miraculous doings. — Literary Hub, 30 July 2026 Some of the hagiographies of Francis were written shortly after his death in 1226. — Vanessa Corcoran, The Conversation, 2 Feb. 2026 To say that Melania is a hagiography would be an insult to hagiographies. — Frank Scheck, HollywoodReporter, 30 Jan. 2026 Evaluations for top performers read as hagiographies. — Davis Winkie, USA Today, 14 Oct. 2025

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Walter Isaacson, author of the Steve Jobs and Elon Musk biographies, is turning his lens on AI.

— Caitlin Huston, HollywoodReporter, 19 Oct. 2026
There are also biographies of David Beckham, Bob Dylan, Carole King, Marilyn Monroe, and Audrey Hepburn.

— Hikmat Mohammed, ARTnews.com, 10 Oct. 2026

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Each President has an official photograph of themselves, and Macron’s has him with de Gaulle’s war memoirs in the back.

— Isaac Chotiner, New Yorker, 23 Oct. 2026
In recent decades, dozens of harrowing memoirs have been written by North Koreans who fled the country.

— Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 15 Oct. 2026

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