biographer

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Recent Examples of biographer Royal biographer Caroline Hallemann explained how the women’s first meeting in 1961 went down. Rachel Burchfield, InStyle, 11 June 2026 The biographer, who co-wrote Finding the Champion Within with Caitlyn Jenner for Simon & Schuster, died on June 6 at 78, the Los Angeles County Medical Examiner confirmed. Angel Saunders, PEOPLE, 10 June 2026 William Hasley, a screenwriter and biographer who wrote about Caitlyn Jenner, has died. Marina Watts, Entertainment Weekly, 9 June 2026 Romano’s sturdy book may not stint on examples of Mary’s bad behavior—including a ferociously jealous verbal assault, near the end of the war, on the wife of a prominent Union general—but the biographer keeps tilting against those who slighted Mary in even the most superficial ways. Thomas Mallon, New Yorker, 18 May 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
  • The discovery of gold in the Black Hills in what is now South Dakota by a Custer expedition just years earlier spurred a military campaign against Great Plains tribes that aimed to push them onto reservations, or what were known then as agencies, said historian Dakota Goodhouse.
    ABC News, ABC News, 25 June 2026
  • Screenings include an introduction by critic and film historian Leonard Maltin.
    Eric E. Harrison, Arkansas Online, 25 June 2026

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