How to Use biographer in a Sentence

biographer

noun

• The biographer even gives the loss as the reason for the playwright’s leaving Athens in high dudgeon for the court of the tyrant Hieron.
  — A.e. Stallings, The New York Review of Books, 17 Aug. 2023
• How sad that the biographer was unable to complete the project.
  — Terry W. Hartle, The Christian Science Monitor, 20 Dec. 2021
• Austen Ivereigh is the papal biographer who wrote the book and has written two others with the pope.
  — Devon Link, USA TODAY, 30 Nov. 2020
• Hugo Vickers, a royal biographer, told The Post that chances of peace seem slim at the moment.
  — Washington Post, 1 July 2021
• Scott Baird is not someone who would strike you as a biographer.
  — Katie Hafner, Scientific American, 11 Nov. 2021
• The death was confirmed by Mr. Hunt’s studio and by his biographer, Jon Ott.
  — Mitch Smith, New York Times, 16 Dec. 2023
• For her fond biographer, Frankenthaler’s art delights the eye, as it was designed to, and that’s enough.
  — Adam Gopnik, The New Yorker, 5 Apr. 2021
• The biographer told The Post that some Britons may disapprove of having a child out-of-wedlock.
  — Washington Post, 21 Sep. 2021
• As a biographer of Winston Churchill, Mr. Johnson might prefer to think of it as the end of the beginning.
  — Dominic Green, WSJ, 7 June 2022
• Caro is a biographer of American power from the top down and the bottom up.
  — Owen Gleiberman, Variety, 17 June 2022
• James Beard could not have been an easy subject to tackle for a biographer.
  — Washington Post, 24 Dec. 2020
• Reliving it, in a sense, for the page only, the biographer can show us what dropped away or was repressed.
  — Andrew O’Hagan, The New York Review of Books, 13 Apr. 2021
• Princess Diana hoped the world would know about the love that the future King Charles sent her through letters, a royal biographer claims.
  — Janine Henni, Peoplemag, 24 July 2024
• The cause was a head injury from a fall in her home, said Markus Thiel, a music journalist and her biographer.
  — New York Times, 22 Oct. 2021
• Trump biographer Michael D'Antonio agrees, with a caveat.
  — Richard Galant, CNN, 15 Aug. 2021
• Paul Johnson, a biographer of Churchill, and many others, wrote that Churchill worked in bed until noon.
  — Jay Nordlinger, National Review, 12 Jan. 2022
• Not even this student biographer can keep up with those two.
  — Maggie Fremont, Vulture, 18 June 2021
• Or just the resigned sigh of a biographer who can no more get a handle on his subject than his subject could?
  — Washington Post, 28 Oct. 2020
• It’s the sensation of Hendrix slipping out of the story, out of this world, out of the hands of another biographer.
  — James Parker, The Atlantic, 18 Sep. 2020
• Pim is not the obvious candidate for the role of Roth biographer.
  — Casey Schwartz, New York Times, 26 Nov. 2022
• Disentangling the sources from the finished product is the job of a biographer, not a reader.
  — Judith Shulevitz, The Atlantic, 5 Oct. 2021
• Like any good biographer, Mr. Reynolds takes us through the important events of Lincoln’s life.
  — Gordon S. Wood, WSJ, 25 Sep. 2020
• Yet biographer Robert Hardman, who has had unrivaled access to palace aides and friends of Charles for his new book, says this was overblown.
  — Simon Perry, Peoplemag, 19 Jan. 2024
• Her biographer Kevin Mooney confirmed the death but did not know the immediate cause.
  — Adam Bernstein, Washington Post, 26 Nov. 2022
• Richard Kleiman is a biographer who is not serving his subject well.
  — Alex Shephard, The New Republic, 21 May 2021
• Four life stories in one cover is a heavy lift for even the most talented biographer.
  — A. Wess Mitchell, WSJ, 28 Jan. 2022
• Penny Junor, a royal biographer, said the queen may be entering a new phase of her reign where she will not be seen as much in public.
  — Sylvia Hui, chicagotribune.com, 14 Nov. 2021
• The biographer Lewis traces a formative moment for the young Richard to October 1459.
  — Meilan Solly, Smithsonian Magazine, 23 Mar. 2023
• Demetrius’ biographer, the ancient author Plutarch, tells us Demetrius had a policy akin to work hard and play harder.
  — Charlotte Dunn, Smithsonian Magazine, 22 Aug. 2022
• According to Antony’s biographer Plutarch, Octavia foresaw that she was destined to become either the wife of the man who had killed her brother or the sister of the man who had killed her husband.
  — Daisy Dunn, Smithsonian Magazine, 30 July 2024

Last Updated: 19 Nov 2024