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Writing (or having it written for you) a biography before age 60, is more a sign of an inflated ego and borderline or full-blown narcissist personality (not the mental illness per se, the personality), or at least quite severe ego-centrism. Noem is 52 according to the internet; and kudos to the make-up artist, lighting rigger and photgrapher who took the cover picture.

Calling hagiography biography is however older than a few decades: originally, it was the norm rather than the exception. Having an interesting life-story written for you and consigned to posterity dates back to Ancient Egypt, if not before that even.

The idea that a biography shold be written by the subject itself, honestly and truthfully, is so modern it barely got off the ground before being shot down.

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