How to Use biographer in a Sentence

biographer

noun

• For biographers, these tend to lie in childhood, but Carson’s was boring.
  — Isaac Butler, The New Yorker, 6 Nov. 2024
• Per the account of her nephew and biographer Quentin Bell, Woolf’s statements were met with some skepticism.
  — Suyin Haynes, Time, 17 Dec. 2019
• If occasionally the biographer seems to reach, well, that’s her job: to use facts and the historical record to help us understand both the life and the art.
  — Rumaan Alam, The New Republic, 9 Jan. 2020
• The difficulty for any Houdini biographer — and there have been many — is separating fact from fiction.
  — Meg Jones, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 10 Dec. 2019
• Hugo Vickers, whose book (excerpted in The Times) has just been published, confirms that her various biographers have stressed this point.
  — Simon Perry, PEOPLE.com, 7 Dec. 2019
• 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
• Vasari was the leading biographer of the artists of the Renaissance.
  — Brian T. Allen, National Review, 2 Sep. 2020
• 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
• Nor can his excellent biographer find much of it in the life.
  — Tim Parks, The New York Review of Books, 25 Feb. 2020
• 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
• It has been said that the central task of a biographer is revision.
  — Steve Donoghue, The Christian Science Monitor, 7 July 2020
• 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
• 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

Last Updated: 25 Dec 2024