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Monograph vs Biography - What's the difference?

monograph | biography |

In transitive terms the difference between monograph and biography

is that monograph is to write a monograph on (a subject) while biography is to write a biography of.

monograph

Noun

(en noun)
  • A scholarly book or a treatise on a single subject or a group of related subjects, usually written by one person.
  • I had never given much thought to the role of darkness in ordinary human affairs until I read a monograph prepared by John Staudenmaier, a historian of technology and a Jesuit priest, for a recent conference at MIT.'' Cullen Murphy, "Hello Darkness", ''The Atlantic Monthly , March 1996, Volume 277, No. 3, pp. 22-24.

    Verb

    (en verb)
  • To write a monograph on (a subject).
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  • , passage=It is among the most studied, monographed , celebrated and sent-up works of modern art, and perhaps as influential as any from the last century. }}

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    biography

    English

    Noun

    (biographies)
  • A person's life story, especially one published.
  • There are many biographies of Benjamin Franklin.

    Derived terms

    * autobiography * heterobiography * psychobiography

    Verb

  • To write a biography of.