Abstract: YAO Xueyin is an important writer during the anti-Japanese War and the founder of contemporary Chinese historical novels. Although there are so many historical materials of "transmissibility" in his life, the biographies of YAO Xueyin are relatively few and the contents are quite different, because it is not only limited to the "new context of enlightenment" in the 20th century, but also to the current transmission of literature in the 1980s. The biographies of YAO Xueyin (hereinafter referred to as YANG Zhuan and XU Zhuan) by YANG Jianye and XU Jianhui are two particularly typical examples. Both YANG Zhuan and XU Zhuan are based on the motive of commemoration, focusing on the realistic linear writing and complete recording of the narrator's life experience, and responding to his important life nodes and related controversial events. Compared with YANG Zhuan's reportage style of propagandization and description of the author and literary research excerpt style of work analysis, XU Zhuan has a more detailed grasp of the author's literary creation and ideological path, which fills the gap of YANG Zhuan's exploration of the author's spiritual and psychological content. As a "strange case" in the history of modern and contemporary literature, XU Zhuan's biography of YAO Xueyin's "history of mentality" and the exploration of her "simple" and "complex" psychological world are thought-provoking, which have specific enlightening significance for the writing of modern writers' academic biography.