I am fond of biography as a genre. I have engaged in it in article form.
However, see this post from The Historical Society:
The Historical Society: Michal Jan Rozbicki on “The Rise of Learned Hagiography”.
Reviewer Michal Jan Rozbicki identifies an important trend that needs to be named and resisted. Learned hagiography reinforces another trend: heroification, i.e., the bestowing of the status of hero to anyone who does anything “good.” Life and human nature are more complicated than that. Historians, of all people, should be about reminding us of this.
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