How to Use biographer in a Sentence

biographer

noun
  • This is not the sort of note team biographers are eager to update.
    — San Diego Union-Tribune, 6 Sep. 2019
  • Nor can his excellent biographer find much of it in the life.
    — Tim Parks, The New York Review of Books, 25 Feb. 2020
  • Scott Baird is not someone who would strike you as a biographer.
    — Katie Hafner, Scientific American, 11 Nov. 2021
  • In the decades since, critics and biographers have pushed back on this dim view of Frost.
    — Maggie Doherty, The New Yorker, 24 Feb. 2025
  • How sad that the biographer was unable to complete the project.
    — Terry W. Hartle, The Christian Science Monitor, 20 Dec. 2021
  • And the first victim’s ex-wife now works for — and feels enslaved by — the biographer.
    — Roberta Alexander, The Mercury News, 6 Jan. 2017
  • It has been said that the central task of a biographer is revision.
    — Steve Donoghue, The Christian Science Monitor, 7 July 2020
  • James Beard could not have been an easy subject to tackle for a biographer.
    — Washington Post, 24 Dec. 2020
  • Richard Kleiman is a biographer who is not serving his subject well.
    — Alex Shephard, The New Republic, 21 May 2021
  • The biographer’s task is to plunge them, once more, into the stream of history.
    — Merve Emre, New Yorker, 1 Dec. 2025
  • Adams asked fans last week to share with his biographer how his work may have been inspirational to others.
    — Brian Niemietz, Boston Herald, 13 Jan. 2026
  • Over the past year, two biographers have attempted to flesh out the men behind the symbols.
    — Rob Wolfe, The Atlantic, 5 June 2026
  • Reliving it, in a sense, for the page only, the biographer can show us what dropped away or was repressed.
    — Andrew O’Hagan, The New York Review of Books, 13 Apr. 2021
  • Austen Ivereigh is the papal biographer who wrote the book and has written two others with the pope.
    — Devon Link, USA TODAY, 30 Nov. 2020
  • What is the most difficult thing about being a biographer?
    — Lauren Kane, The New York Review of Books, 7 Mar. 2026
  • In a sense, Mugabe was the de facto biographer of the nation.
    — Tinashe Mushakavanhu, Quartz Africa, 29 Sep. 2019
  • Two would-be biographers had access to Earp himself.
    — Sandra Dallas, Denver Post, 6 Dec. 2025
  • Caro is a biographer of American power from the top down and the bottom up.
    — Owen Gleiberman, Variety, 17 June 2022
  • For her fond biographer, Frankenthaler’s art delights the eye, as it was designed to, and that’s enough.
    — Adam Gopnik, The New Yorker, 5 Apr. 2021
  • Vasari was the leading biographer of the artists of the Renaissance.
    — Brian T. Allen, National Review, 2 Sep. 2020
  • In addition to that, biographers have had to to sift through the myths Dylan has built up about his life story.
    — Andrew Demillo, Boston Herald, 15 June 2025
  • Biden doubled down saying that the claim stemmed from the president’s biographer.
    — Lea Veloso, StyleCaster, 14 Aug. 2025
  • That famous story, which biographer Parson Weems used to teach kids not to lie, was a lie.
    — Jim Beckerman, USA TODAY, 26 Oct. 2019
  • The biographer’s task is to breathe life into an inert mass of material, then discard most of it.
    — Sara Wheeler, Big Think, 17 Apr. 2026
  • The film also stars Christian Slater as a biographer who hopes to write about Joe’s life.
    — Marie Milano, Country Living, 24 Feb. 2019
  • Pim is not the obvious candidate for the role of Roth biographer.
    — Casey Schwartz, New York Times, 26 Nov. 2022
  • Disentangling the sources from the finished product is the job of a biographer, not a reader.
    — Judith Shulevitz, The Atlantic, 5 Oct. 2021
  • Over the years, biographers and art historians have circled the same questions.
    — Clare Bucknell, Harpers Magazine, 23 June 2026
  • The cause was a head injury from a fall in her home, said Markus Thiel, a music journalist and her biographer.
    — New York Times, 22 Oct. 2021
  • The former prince's biographer opened up about his alleged behavior with women.
    — Rachel Burchfield, InStyle, 28 May 2026

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