A good biography writing should be sophisticatedly able to conveying any details description about the story’s subject to the readers. It’s obviously author responsibility to deliberate the space between the story’s subject and the readers, includes the good part or the bad part.

There are four essence in biography writing. The first, personality of the story subject. The Second is the social and cultural background of living area of the subject. The third is sensibility, the emotional attachment over the living period of the subject. For example, if you write a story subject of an Indonesian student living in 1998; the sensibility is the reform period of the Indonesia history; or if you write a Chinese businessman living in 2007, so you should set the social-economic situation where industrial booming of the country is heating the world, and its GNP is rocketing the stat.

The Fourth is the turning keypoints, the setting time of the living phases where the story subject changing his or her set of thought. These keys is important to put on the story, to be the reason why one has to change his or her life directions. The turning points might happen because of so many reasons, including his or her reading sets, living phases and situations, journey experiences where he/ she communicate and interacts with a lot of people.

Everybody has their own idols that is inspiring their way of life, even though he or she never met the idol directly in the life. Just knowing and hear about the idols’ works is enough to be the inspirator. There are so many reasons of not knowing the idols directly. It would be because of the distance, otherwise the idols living period is decades or hundred years in the past era.

Those idols subject never ask to be adored, but those persons have some inspireful reasons for other people that encouraging. What we need to do to benefit our life from them? We may learn these idols’ life background; who they really are –through their works. We could do this if we can find biography book about him/ her.

Was a biography book written for the dead? Definitely not. These books also written for those alive. Indeed to those alive, the author made possible to communicate directly to the subjects, to the subjects’ family and surrounding relatives, even to those spectators –would furnish the book contained the details.

The hardest part of biography writing are collecting witnesses and supporting informations from various resources including interviewees. It was a standard necessity to regain biography contents from factual, a must do in biography and history writting. It was also author duty to converse from questions into explainations. In facts, biography authors could reveal a lot of substory evidences should remain untold forsake of the subject. Its obvious, that a biography author should be capable on investigation too, sort of detective or sort of a bond.

What is the major of biography author should have? There are so many disciplines of knowledge should on the grasp of the author to empowering him/ her in writing biography, such as phsycology, sosiology, anthropology, symbolism, etc. A biograhy author should be a multi discipliner person.

And that’s not enough, the author had to capable on exploring the humanity side of the subject. This is to let the readers totally acquainted with the subject and at the same time they could entering into the private domain of the subject as well as his or her public domain. Viewing through the mind of author, the readers would been announced over daily life of the story subject, to let the readers enclosedly and personally experiencing what the subject thinking and doing thoroughly along the story. Briefly, the author should inspiring the readers through his/her story writting. Please never be surprised if you then found your idol is not seem what you’ve been thinking of. When you found out that he or she is extremely contrary to the image of he or she has been.

Both private and public domain are two inseparable facets of the coin in biography writings. Writing a biography is like a diving into the ocean of the deepest subject’s personality. It would be great when the author reveal to the readers what is underlined between private and public domain in a biography.