biographer

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

noun

1. a writer of someone's biography.

Word History and Origins

Origin of biographer¹

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

Example Sentences

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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"We all wanted to look like Audrey Hepburn," she later told her biographer, "but I wasn't attractive and nobody fancied me."

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Famed biographer Walter Isaacson sits at the “Truth Under Fire” table, too.

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Related Words

• author 
• columnist 
• correspondent 
• critic 
• dramatist 
• editor 
• essayist 
• journalist 
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• poet 
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• screenwriter