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"Professor Osgood, one of Samuel Johnson's editors, put it this way:
Biography is the literature of realized personality, of life as it has been lived, of actual achievements or shortcomings, of success or failure; it is not imaginary and embellished, not what might be or might have been, not reduced to prescribed or artificial forms, but it is the unvarnished story of that which was delightful, disappointing, possible, or impossible, in a life spent in this world."
Frantz, Joe B. "Adventuring in Biography." The Historian 16, no. 1 (1953): 45-61. Accessed April 22, 2020. www.jstor.org/stable/24436202.