antibiography

English

Etymology

anti- +‎ biography

Noun

antibiography (plural antibiographies)

1. The history of the unsavory aspects of a person's life.
   • 1995, Edith W. Clowes, Doctor Zhivago: A Critical Companion, →ISBN, page 28:

     Doctor Zhivago invokes two kinds of images of space and time: those of the biographical novel, with its inside spaces of family stability, and those of the road, the quest - except that here we find a kind of antibiography and anti-quest.

   • 2011, Noah Boyd, Last Chance To Die, →ISBN, page 305:

     As are all of us, if that's what you are trying to find out with your little 'antibiography,' shall we say.

   • 2012, J. Albert Harrill, Paul the Apostle: His Life and Legacy in their Roman Context, page 23:

     The first problem we have to face in any biography (or antibiography) of Paul is that the primary evidence imposes severe limitations on what we can know, as the Introduction explained.

   • 2018, N. Katherine Hayles, Chaos Bound: Orderly Disorder in Contemporary Literature and Science, →ISBN:

     The dialectic is also at work within Hogarth's interpretation of his antibiography.