and Paul Celan. These works provide insight into how these survivors’ experiences affected their lives posttrauma as well as informed their writing. The finest examples examine the capacity of history and literature to convey both the horror of mass murder and the evil underlying it. In many cases biographies have furnished valuable added insight into the lives of acclaimed memoirists and diari...

There is currently a movement to promote “culture change” in long-term care facilities for the elderly. One goal of this movement is to make resident care more person-centered rather than institution-centered. Of interest in this research was an exploration of conditions under which a videotaped biography of a senior citizen could be used to create more personalized relationships between reside...

Between the second, third and fourth centuries the Christian Church produced biographies chronicling the pious undertakings of monks. These hagiographies borrowed from preexisting Greek biographies to distinguish the Christian monk from the pagan holy man. Patricia Cox Miller’s Biography in Late Antiquity: The Quest for the Holy Man demonstrates how hagiographers adaptation of Greek biographies...