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Unauthorized biography
Biography written without the subject's permission or input / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
"Tell-all" redirects here. For the novel, see Tell-All.
"Kiss-and-tell" redirects here. For other uses, see Kiss and Tell.
An unauthorized biography sometimes called a kiss-and-tell, or a tell-all, is a biography written without the subject's permission or input.[1] The term is usually restricted to biographies written within the subject's lifetime or shortly after their death; as such, it is not applied to biographies of historical figures written long after their deaths.[2]
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