John Alexander McCrae was a Canadian, poet, physician, author artist and soldier during the First World War, most noted for his poem "In Flander's Fields".
Like an autobiography, biographies cover the entire scope of the subject's life, so it should include details about his or her birthplace, educational.
Claire Tomalin reviewed Robert Gittings's landmark biography of Thomas Hardy. This established the familiar glooming outline of the great Wessex writer we.