Biographies are best when written chronologically. Boring people don't make for good biographies.
Anyone who has lived a full life has something fascinating to share with the world.
Each second of every time has its own story and history to be filed.
Not enough books focus on how a culture responds to radically new ideas or discovery. Especially in the biography genre, they tend to focus on all the sordid details in the life of the person who made...
History is the essence of innumerable biographies.