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

There were some poems that just seem to me to be love poems written not to the “Master,” which most biographers talked about, but to another woman.

From Voice of San Diego

Charles was famously treated very harshly by his father and said as much when telling his life story to his official biographer, Jonathan Dimbleby.

From The Daily Beast

The tension between Pearson’s mostly admirable ends and his sometimes unsavory means is fertile ground for a biographer.

From Washington Post

Much of her work focused on the contrast between the messiness of real life and the tidy narratives offered by lawyers in the courtroom and by journalists and biographers on the page.

From Washington Post

It’s to the much-published Heylin’s benefit that we extend a similar tolerance to the biographer.

From Washington Post

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

From The Daily Beast

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

From The Daily Beast

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

From The Daily Beast

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

From The Daily Beast

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

From The Daily Beast

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

From Project Gutenberg

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

From Project Gutenberg

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

From Project Gutenberg

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

From Project Gutenberg

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

From Project Gutenberg

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