A. Popular Biography – the most read type of biography that subject contemporary and modern celebrities and focusing on their achievement, how they were able to attain it or narrates the story of the rise and fall of an icon.
B. Historical Biography – the type of biography that revolves on a center character who had lived in the center of a certain historical event. This classification also reveals the periodic perspective and dimension of a certain era.
C. Literary Biography – the type of biography that focuses on an author and his works, tells the story on how the literary piece was composed in the light of the center character’s perspective. This biography tells the story of the writer as he writes the story.
D. Reference Biographies – this contains listings of biographical works, famous quotes, and historical events in reference with its biographical sources.
E. Fictional Biographies – this type of biography tells a false story about a person that main purpose is to entertain. Fictional biographies may contain factual accounts but can be exaggerated for literary purposes or prevaricated to conceal and protect the subject of the biography without sacrificing the essence or gist of the literary piece like chronology.
