biographer

noun

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

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Yet, in trying to save her from being an appurtenance of Voltaire’s, her biographer disembodies her a little. Adam Gopnik, The New Yorker, 28 Oct. 2024 Gwenda Blair, a longtime Trump biographer, noted the Garden is associated with rock stars, celebrities and fighters – playing into the larger-than-life image Trump cultivates. David Jackson, USA TODAY, 27 Oct. 2024 However, royal aides told biographer Robert Hardman that was not the whole story as Charles' most senior adviser, Sir Clive Alderton, had been clear of the need to do the right thing for Harry. David Faris, Newsweek, 4 Nov. 2024 According to a Swiss radio documentary released in 2020, the composer had relationships with men, and those relationships were left out of history by successive historians and biographers; a potentially thorny charge in one of Europe’s worst countries for LGBTQ rights. Jack Guy, CNN, 29 Oct. 2024 See all Example Sentences for biographer 

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 23 Nov. 2024.

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