biographer

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Recent Examples of biographer 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 Jenny Uglow Jenny Uglow is a biographer and cultural historian who frequently writes about the relationship between the arts and the history of science. Daniel Drake, The New York Review of Books, 31 Jan. 2026 Fordwich’s comments came after royal biographer Robert Jobson told People magazine that Andrew could face exile abroad. Stephanie Nolasco, FOXNews.com, 16 Jan. 2026 See All Example Sentences for biographer
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Noun
  • The long poems pose an additional problem for a biographer: in these retrospective works, written in the seventies and eighties, Schuyler became a late-breaking autobiographer.
    Dan Chiasson, New Yorker, 4 Aug. 2025
  • Most Black autobiographers never even planned to publish (or thought about publishing) their books commercially.
    Tim Brinkhof, JSTOR Daily, 11 Dec. 2024
Noun
  • After a $57 million redo, Washington-on-the-Brazos is reborn with multiple new buildings that flesh out the townsite as carefully documented by archaeologists, historians and others.
    Ana Gutierrez, Austin American Statesman, 5 Mar. 2026
  • However, a historian like me would argue that San Diego County entered this war as early as 2019.
    Ibrahim Al-Marashi, San Diego Union-Tribune, 5 Mar. 2026

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