biographer

noun

bi·​og·​ra·​pher bī-ˈä-grə-fər How to pronounce biographer (audio)
: a writer of a biography

Examples of biographer in a Sentence

Recent Examples on the Web Tense Meeting Musk’s biographer, Walter Isaacson, described Baglino as a personable engineer with an easy laugh. Edward Ludlow, Fortune, 15 Apr. 2024 As Orwell’s latest biographer, D. J. Taylor, has pointed out in Orwell: The New Life, Orwell’s novels before Animal Farm followed a common template of a sensitive young person going up against a heartless society, destined to lose. Stephen Metcalf, The Atlantic, 5 Apr. 2024 See all Example Sentences for biographer 

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Word History

First Known Use

1702, in the meaning defined above

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The first known use of biographer was in 1702

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“Biographer.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/biographer. Accessed 4 May. 2024.

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