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biographer

[ bahy-og-ruh-fer, bee- ]

noun

  1. a writer of someone's biography.


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Word History and Origins

Origin of biographer1

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

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Example Sentences

But any biographer of the novel faces a problem more fundamental than compressing between two covers a vast and unwieldy subject.

Are you the first Rockefeller biographer to use either of those?

Biographer Andrew Roberts argues that history has maligned Napoleon by lumping him in with totalitarian thugs.

“I had to lie on a huge, fur rug and have a nightmare,” Prince Charles told his biographer, Jonathan Dimbleby.

Biographer Jane Ridley has written of Edward VII, “He spied on Bertie, he whipped him, he treated him as a patient.”

Giles Jacob died; an English law writer, biographer, and lexicographer.

William Roscoe, an English biographer and miscellaneous writer, died.

I do not mean to be his biographer, however, though my partiality for him will be a sufficient apology for a slight sketch.

But how can a conscientious biographer help this ungraciousness and inaccommodativeness?

His biographer insists that there was nothing in the affair but friendship.

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