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 In early 2024, Stenton’s team reached out to Nigel Gambier, who had been identified by a biographer of Fitzjames as a direct descendant. Katie Hunt, CNN, 11 Oct. 2024 There are dragons in its pages as large as cathedrals and others as small as hummingbirds; one of these latter kind has a disproportionately enormous ego and a plan to make Christopher his official biographer. Kathryn Schulz, The New Yorker, 9 Sep. 2024 Well, that’s the view (neatly filleted by Andrew Roberts, Churchill’s finest contemporary biographer, National Review’s Mark Wright, and others) of Darryl Cooper, the podcaster recently interviewed by Tucker Carlson. Andrew Stuttaford, National Review, 10 Sep. 2024 Natural wonders were deeply intertwined with Lorde’s life: The biographer devotes lyrical passages to eclipses, volcanoes, and especially hurricanes. Danielle Amir Jackson, The Atlantic, 8 Sep. 2024 See all Example Sentences for biographer 

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Word History

First Known Use

1702, in the meaning defined above

Time Traveler
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 30 Oct. 2024.

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