biographer

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Recent Examples of biographer There were allegedly problems, the royal biographer continues, even when Harry and Markle moved to Frogmore Cottage on the Windsor estate, near the castle where Queen Elizabeth spent most of her time. Roberta Mercuri, Vanity Fair, 6 Apr. 2026 While the hero existed — as did Athos, Porthos, and Aramis, or at least musketeers with similar names — most of the actual stories are invented, either by the sensationalist biographer or Dumas himself. Tom Chivers, semafor.com, 26 Mar. 2026 As Truell takes a Zoom call, the image of Caro—legendary biographer of Lyndon Johnson and Robert Moses, known for his exhaustive, decades-long research—looms over his shoulder, sweatered, bespectacled, writing intently. Allie Garfinkle, Fortune, 24 Mar. 2026 Historians, including biographer Miriam Pawel, have documented allegations that some encounters involved intimidation and violence. Paris Barraza, USA Today, 17 Mar. 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
  • Veterans and a historian have filed a federal lawsuit contending the structure would block historic sight lines between the Lincoln Memorial and Arlington National Cemetery across the river.
    Darlene Superville, Los Angeles Times, 16 Apr. 2026
  • With topics ranging from stoicism to Greek identity, the inaugural conversations are hosted by Professor Despina Iosif, a historian specializing in the Greco-Roman world (€180 per 45-minute session, booked through the hotel).
    Yulia Denisyuk, Robb Report, 16 Apr. 2026

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