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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The New Yorker’s Janet Malcolm had choice words for the army of Plath’s biographers. Theater Critic, Los Angeles Times, 14 Feb. 2026 David Greenberg, a historian at Rutgers University and a biographer of the civil-rights leader John Lewis, told me that the right could have made a persuasive case against the excessive preoccupation with slavery and racial politics that some on the left have shown. Thomas Chatterton Williams, The Atlantic, 13 Feb. 2026 His biographer, Halldór Guðmundsson, states that Rome always worked on him like a drug. Literary Hub, 11 Feb. 2026 All this is strange and disappointing, because Holmes is a gifted biographer, not to mention a fluent translator of science and an astute reader of poetry. Kathryn Schulz, New Yorker, 9 Feb. 2026 See All Example Sentences for biographer

Word History

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 15 Feb. 2026.

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