biographer
- noun
- /baɪˈɒɡrəfər/
- The famous biographer published a detailed account of Mozart's life and career.
- a biographer writes
- according to a biographer
- unauthorized biographer
Beyond is mentioned by previous biographers and historians.
- Beyond is mentioned by previous biographers and historians.
- Well, I say that we biographers don't write how to books.
- So let me ask you, did you start this sort of work as a biographer of Jennifer Downer?
- And there's also what we could call an unofficial biography as well as interviews with that biographer.
- So what I would in the case of Einstein and Turing have, I'm going back and forth with the biographers of each.
- The result is a remarkable book in which the biographer's relationship with her subject in life and the memory of it is brought wholly alive for her readers.
- Melon's dead, Edgar Snow was Mao's biographer, and Herbert Matthews was like Castro's.
- So that's like the biographer's gold when you find a correspondence like that.
- So I start working Iraq, and I became Saddam Hussein's intelligence community biographer, right?
- Well, this is this is something that has been alleged by sadly by one of my biographers.
Examples
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As Austin herself described, and as her biographers have amply noted, hers was a traumatic and unhappy childhood.
Fiction book (1996) -
So controversial a figure would seem to be a biographer's dream.
Academic text (2011) -
Besides, you could get any biographer you wanted, right?
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After all, I'm only your official biographer!
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Specifically, I am a literary biographer, or, more precisely, a biographer of writers.
Fiction book (1990) -
You have written about, profiled, acted as biographer of quite a few people.
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So let me ask you, did you start this sort of work as a biographer of Jennifer Downer?
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There's a good reason Tesla's biographer named his book A Man Out of Time.
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According to her biographer Harriet Reason, Alcott later said, I do not enjoy writing moral tales for the young.
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Well, that's what historians and biographers do, is re evaluate the the history and the person.
Synonyms
How Laudatory
- Formal
Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
The word biographer comes from the parts bio- meaning 'life', as in biology, and -graph- meaning 'to write', as in autograph, plus -er meaning 'person'. So a biographer is literally a 'life writer' who writes someone's life story.