Old Town #2

Continuing my tour of 'Old Town' in downtown Albuquerque...This jewelry store's backdoor seemed more artistic than the front door.

Today is National Biographer's Day!
Biographer’s Day takes place on the anniversary of the meeting of Samuel Johnson and his biographer James Boswell; however, biographies have existed much longer than their meeting. Originally, biographies were written historically, with one of the first biographies written during the time of the Roman Empire. The first found record of this kind of journal was written by Cornelius Nepos in 44 BC, who wrote an extensive biography on the most famous generals of the Roman and Greeks. During the Middle Ages, priests, monks, and hermits would write memoirs, mostly because much of the writing back then was written for the Roman Catholic Church. The same also went for the medieval Islamic cultures as well. However, even as more and more biographies were written during the 1500’s, it wasn’t considered to be a form of literature.