Definition of biographer
: a writer of a biography
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Williams' granddaughter and biographer, Karen Hudson, who accepted his Gold Medal in April, praised his talent for situating a building to best capture views and sunlight.
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But, just as Trilling recoiled from grandiloquent radical gesture, Robins seems to have renounced the biographer’s task to come to some sustained conclusion about her subject.
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Trump biographer Timothy L. O’Brien has explained why this might be so.
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William Stamps Cherry's grandson and biographer discuss the legacy of an early African explorer.
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That’s one more Hemingway legend the next biographer could overthrow.
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This is to be expected in an authorized biography, especially when, as is the case here, the subject approached and then pursued the biographer.
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BIOGRAPHER Defined for Kids
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playDefinition of biographer for Students
: someone who tells the account of a real person's life
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