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

Unfashionably for a modern biographer, Mr. Cobb makes only very brief and glancing reference to these peccadilloes.

From The Wall Street Journal

According to Ford’s biographer Richard Norton Smith, they feared their protective resources might be stretched dangerously thin in such a downtrodden place—a concern no doubt magnified by two earlier assassination attempts against the president.

From The Wall Street Journal

This wealth of evidence presents a twofold challenge to biographers.

From The Wall Street Journal

For most of his life, Michelangelo’s 16th-century biographer Ascanio Condivi tells us, the artist aspired to carve a colossus out of a coastal mountain, a figure visible from ships at sea.

From The Wall Street Journal

Royal biographer and friend of King Charles, Jonathan Dimbleby, said the King's message demonstrated the "unique role of the sovereign".

From BBC

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