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Biography Interview Questions

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The document provides a list of interview questions to help create a biography by sparking memories in different areas of someone's life. The questions are organized into sections including early childhood, high school, career, family, love, and general. The interviewer is directed to choose the appropriate number of questions from each section to ask the subject in order to write their answers and produce an interesting biography with memorable details.

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The document provides a list of interview questions to help create a biography by sparking memories in different areas of someone's life. The questions are organized into sections including early childhood, high school, career, family, love, and general. The interviewer is directed to choose the appropriate number of questions from each section to ask the subject
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Interviewing to write a biography

Writing an in-depth profile of a grandparent or family friend will help your child develop interview skills, learn to write up notes and introduce them to family heritage, stories and legends that they might never have heard! Use our suggested questions to help set up a conversation to remember.

How well do your children know the biographical details of your life, or their grandparents'? Do you yourself know how family friends met their partners, what their favourite subject was at school or what their first job was?

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Help your child learn about the features of biographical text by encouraging them to interview family members, friends and neighbours and write up their findings as a biography.

The interviews don't need to take place face-to-face, but they will reinforce the bonds between your child a

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Have you ever wanted to know what your mother was like as a child? Where your grandfather was from? How your parents met? Below are 35 Biography Questions to ask your parents or grandparents to learn more about their life stories and your family history.

As a Legacy Video producer, I ask well over 100 questions in an interview so be sure to add your own to the list. And don’t forget to ask follow-up questions!

Biography Questions

  1. What is your full name?
  2. When were you born?
  3. Where were you born?
  4. What is/was your mother’s name?
  5. Where was she from?
  6. What do you now about your mother’s early years?
  7. What were your mother’s parents’ names?
  8. Where were they were from?
  9. What did they do for a living?
  10. What was/is your father’s name?
  11. Where was he from?
  12. What do you know about your father’s early years?
  13. What were your father’s parents’ names?
  14. Where were they were from?
  15. What did they do for a living?
  16. How did your parents meet?
  17. Do you have any siblings?
  18. Where did you grow up?
  19. Describe the neighborhood/s.
  20. What s

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