There some characteristics of biographical recount text that you have to know, such as:

  1. It is not written by the subject. It means that a biography is written by someone else who wants to write about the subject. It usually will be written based on the need. Some writer could write it in either short or long biography.
  2. It is always written in the third person.
  3. It is based on the research not on imagination. When someone wants to make a biography, she or he must do some researches. What kind of researches are they? Reading all books related to the subject is one of ways of the research, besides reading, interviewing subject relation ( if it is possible) also can be as a research before writing a biography.
  4. Describing the subject’s surroundings (where, when, and how the person lived)
  5. Showing how the person affected other people’s life through their behavior, discoveries, social reform etc.
  6. Supplying details that illustrate the person’s individuality.
  7. Using vivid language to narrate the events
  8. It is arranged chronologically.