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from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.

  • noun One who writes, composes, or produces biography.

from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun One who writes a biography, or an account of the life and actions of a particular person; a writer of lives.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • noun One who writes an account or history of the life of a particular person; a writer of lives, as Plutarch.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

  • noun the writer of a biography

from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

  • noun someone who writes an account of a person's life

Etymologies

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biography +‎ -er

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