biographer

noun

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

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Sam Wasson, one of Hollywood’s preeminent historians and biographers, has published searching books on the lives and works of Francis Ford Coppola, Paul Mazursky, Blake Edwards and Roman Polanski. — Gary Baum, HollywoodReporter, 27 Oct. 2026 According to Capra biographer Sam Wasson, the 83-year-old director made the trip from Southern California and sent along his own print to screen. — Los Angeles Times, 27 Oct. 2026 All this challenges a biographer who would plumb Casey’s decades as chief executive. — Marc Levinson, Fortune, 25 Oct. 2026 Decades later, long after Hemingway’s death, in 1961, Carlos Baker, Hemingway’s biographer, told Conrad about some of the letters deriding him. — Stephen Bates, New Yorker, 22 Oct. 2026 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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