As many researchers have repeatedly emphasized, Biographical Literature articles "are not technically history, yet nor are they literature, but something between the two. They are built around a framework of biography, the mode of expression is literary, and they emerge in the form of historical materials."
儘管不少研究者一再強調，傳記文學的文章雖「不等於史學，也不等於文學，而是介於史學與文學之間，以傳記為骨架，加上文學形式的表現技巧，所呈現的史料。」