biographer

American  

[bahy-og-ruh-fer, bee-] / baɪˈɒg rə fər, bi- /

noun

1. a writer of someone's biography.

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Etymology

Origin of biographer

First recorded in 1705–15; biograph(y) + -er ¹

Example Sentences

In her review, Kathryn Hughes called the book “a gripping testimony into the enduring problems that all biographers face in pursuit of their art.”

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Ms. Vaill nevertheless leans into it harder than previous biographers, who have characterized their mutual affection as platonic.

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Edited by Lee’s appointed biographer Casey Cep, it collects the author’s youthful short stories along with the surprisingly few nonfiction pieces she produced after becoming famous.

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But the biographer also makes clear that Roth cultivated reticence with the same zeal with which he flaunted candor.

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Despite the ignominious end to his career, Diggs spent many years as a stellar legislator who became, as his biographer Marion Orr writes, “the most powerful Black politician on Capitol Hill.”

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