Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- n. One who writes, composes, or produces biography.
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- n. One who writes a biography, or an account of the life and actions of a particular person; a writer of lives.
Wiktionary
- n. the writer of a biography
GNU Webster's 1913
- n. One who writes an account or history of the life of a particular person; a writer of lives, as Plutarch.
WordNet 3.0
- n. someone who writes an account of a person's life
Etymologies
- biography + -er (Wiktionary)
Examples
“The biographer is obliged to tell the truth -- even when it means saying something good about someone.”
The Huffington Post: Donald Spoto: Insist on the Truth -- Even When It's Good News
“The biographer is obliged to tell the truth -- even when it means saying something good about someone.”
The Huffington Post: Donald Spoto: Insist on the Truth -- Even When It's Good News
“As the author of twenty-six books, most of them biographies, I've developed a kind of motto: "The biographer is obliged to tell the truth -- even when it means saying something good about someone.”
The Huffington Post: Donald Spoto: Insist on the Truth -- Even When It's Good News
“Hmm, yes, the Arnold Kling biographer is going to have a LOT to wade through.”
Wading Through Schumpeter, Arnold Kling | EconLog | Library of Economics and Liberty
“A young English biographer is working on a book about the late writer, John Coetzee.”
“Kathryn: Would you say Trudy, the Aspinall biographer, is acting out of hubris with her idea that she can have that story, that it is hers for the taking?”
“He's no fool; he knows this is not a popular position to take," says Robert Timberg, a McCain biographer and editor of Proceedings: The Magazine of the U.S.”
“For example: Edmund White on Marcel Proust, Edna O'Brien on James Joyce, Mary Gordon on Joan of Arc. The choice of biographer is not obvious — it may even be at first glance surprising — but it is intriguing, and based on some perceived affinity of temperament, vision, or cultural background between author and subject.”
“Boswell gave a new meaning to the word biographer, that is the writer of a life, and now when a great man has had no one to write his life well, we say "He lacks”
“Crawford didn’t live to see the publication — and, worse, the filming — of Mommie Dearest, but she has had numerous defenders in the years since, and her new biographer is firmly in the pro-Joan, anti-Christina camp.”
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘biographer’.
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bio-
of or relating to life
biology, biohazard, biome, biosphere, biotic, biography, biologist, biographer, biochemistry, biogenesis, autobiography, biostatic and 1 more...
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Writer, Writer!
columnist, contributor, novelist, poet, wordsmith, stringer, freelancer, ghostwriter, journalist, correspondent, essayist, speechwriter and 99 more...
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-grapher
denoting a person concerned with a subject
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