Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun One who writes, composes, or produces biography.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun One who writes a biography, or an account of the life and actions of a particular person; a writer of lives.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun One who writes an account or history of the life of a particular person; a writer of lives, as Plutarch.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun the writer of a
biography
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun someone who writes an account of a person's life
Etymologies
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Examples
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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."
Donald Spoto: Insist on the Truth -- Even When It's Good News Donald Spoto 2010
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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 2009
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"The biographer is obliged to tell the truth -- even when it means saying something good about someone."
Donald Spoto: Insist on the Truth -- Even When It's Good News Donald Spoto 2010
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A young English biographer is working on a book about the late writer, John Coetzee.
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A young English biographer is working on a book about the late writer, John Coetzee.
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The biographer is obliged to tell the truth -- even when it means saying something good about someone.
Donald Spoto: Insist on the Truth -- Even When It's Good News Donald Spoto 2010
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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."
Donald Spoto: Insist on the Truth -- Even When It's Good News Donald Spoto 2010
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A young English biographer is working on a book about the late writer, John Coetzee.
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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?
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"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.
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