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Ghostwritten autobiographies: who really writes them?
Who writes famous autobiographies? Tendulkar, Kalam, Milkha Singh, Dilip Kumar and Agassi, the co-writers they credited, and how such a book is made.
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What is a private biography? How a family book works
A private biography is a life story written for a family, printed in a short run and never sold. What goes in, what it costs, and who owns it.
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How long should an autobiography be?
A whole-life autobiography runs 60,000 to 90,000 words; a book of twelve stories, about 25,000. Pages, hours of talking and months, with real examples.
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Ratan Tata: A Life, the biography book taken apart
Ratan Tata: A Life by Thomas Mathew, read by a biographer: how he got access, how the book is built, and what a business family can take from it.
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Autobiography vs memoir vs biography: what’s the difference?
An autobiography is your whole life, a memoir one part of it, a biography a life told by someone else. Indian examples, and which fits your own story.
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How great biographers research a life
How Robert Caro, Ramachandra Guha, Walter Isaacson and five others research a life, and five of their rules a family can use on a parent’s life.
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Can AI write my father’s biography? What it can and can’t do
AI apps can record and transcribe a parent from US$39. What they do well, where Hindi and Punjabi trip them up, and what a book still needs from a person.
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The best memoirs by Indian women
Twelve memoirs and autobiographies by Indian women, from Rassundari Devi to Indra Nooyi, with the language each was written in and who each one suits.
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The best biographies of Indian business founders
Fifteen biographies of Indian business founders, from Dhirubhai Ambani to Verghese Kurien: who wrote each one, what access they had, and who it suits.
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Biographies for ₹5 lakh (draft)
This is the first draft of this. Publishing to seek feedback from people, writers most of all. Lemme know what you think. TLDR: Soon there will be three ways to get a biography written on sgwashere.com. About ₹5 lakh, written…