biographer

noun

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

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Listen to this article Doris Kearns Goodwin, the famous historian and biographer of Abraham Lincoln, has said that only Jesus has been written about more than our 16th president over the past 165 years. Pam Kragen, San Diego Union-Tribune, 16 Feb. 2025 In this slim volume of essays, Marshall, a Pulitzer Prize-winning biographer, turns inward, reflecting on her discovery of old personal paraphernalia, including letters and photographs. The New Yorker, 10 Feb. 2025 Country music has its share of talented biographers: Robert K. Oermann, Barry Mazor and Holly George-Warren, just to name a few. Tom Roland, Billboard, 23 Jan. 2025 Marshall is a Pulitzer Prize-winning biographer who specializes in trailblazing American women, including 19th-century journalist Margaret Fuller and midcentury poet Elizabeth Bishop. April Austin, The Christian Science Monitor, 11 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 1 Mar. 2025.

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