biographer

noun

bi·​og·​ra·​pher bī-ˈä-grə-fər How to pronounce biographer (audio)
: a writer of a biography

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That lets a biographer build a picture with real subtlety, complexity and accuracy. Meredith Wolf Schizer, Newsweek, 19 Mar. 2025 The billionaire Peter Thiel has been compared to Dugin by the latter’s biographer. Arash Azizi, The Atlantic, 19 Mar. 2025 Founded in Baltimore in 1911 by, among others, Ernest Jones, Freud’s first biographer, its goals were to consolidate the profession and to standardize both training and treatment. Maggie Doherty, Harper's Magazine, 28 Feb. 2025 Frost’s first major biographer, Lawrance Thompson, seemed to take his cue from such critics. Maggie Doherty, The New Yorker, 24 Feb. 2025 See All Example Sentences for biographer

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First Known Use

1702, in the meaning defined above

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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 8 Apr. 2025.

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