biographer

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Recent Examples of biographer The biographer who revived the reputation of our first Secretary of the Treasury—and incidentally launched a trillion amateur rap battles—set his sights on a beloved American satirist this year. Brittany Allen, Literary Hub, 27 Aug. 2025 According to the biographer Scott Elledge, White sent another telegram to Ross’s successor, William Shawn. Nathan Heller, New Yorker, 24 Aug. 2025 According to Rolling Stone, Beach Boys biographer David Leaf and Rolling Stone editor Jason Fine gave the formal eulogies. Marina Watts, People.com, 21 Aug. 2025 And so, for Alec Nevala-Lee of Oak Park, who has become an underrated biographer of Great Jerks in Science, Alvarez was perfect. Christopher Borrelli, Chicago Tribune, 13 Aug. 2025 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
  • But Israeli historian Yuval Noah Harari says the number one problem in Israel today is not Hamas.
    Romina Ruiz-Goiriena, USA Today, 4 Oct. 2025
  • There are many very fine historians working on the Tudors.
    Phillipa Gregory, PEOPLE, 4 Oct. 2025

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