How to Use biographer in a Sentence

biographer

noun

• The biographer even gives the loss as the reason for the playwright’s leaving Athens in high dudgeon for the court of the tyrant Hieron.
  — A.e. Stallings, The New York Review of Books, 17 Aug. 2023
• The death was confirmed by Mr. Hunt’s studio and by his biographer, Jon Ott.
  — Mitch Smith, New York Times, 16 Dec. 2023
• As a biographer of Winston Churchill, Mr. Johnson might prefer to think of it as the end of the beginning.
  — Dominic Green, WSJ, 7 June 2022
• Caro is a biographer of American power from the top down and the bottom up.
  — Owen Gleiberman, Variety, 17 June 2022
• Pim is not the obvious candidate for the role of Roth biographer.
  — Casey Schwartz, New York Times, 26 Nov. 2022
• Yet biographer Robert Hardman, who has had unrivaled access to palace aides and friends of Charles for his new book, says this was overblown.
  — Simon Perry, Peoplemag, 19 Jan. 2024
• Her biographer Kevin Mooney confirmed the death but did not know the immediate cause.
  — Adam Bernstein, Washington Post, 26 Nov. 2022
• The biographer Lewis traces a formative moment for the young Richard to October 1459.
  — Meilan Solly, Smithsonian Magazine, 23 Mar. 2023
• Demetrius’ biographer, the ancient author Plutarch, tells us Demetrius had a policy akin to work hard and play harder.
  — Charlotte Dunn, Smithsonian Magazine, 22 Aug. 2022
• If chronology is the biographer’s best friend, then gaps in the timeline are their worst enemies.
  — R.j.m. Blackett, Smithsonian Magazine, 24 Mar. 2023
• Another biographer, male, has written a book about X in which, of course, he’s gotten so much wrong, not least the place and people of X’s origins.
  — Lynn Steger Strong, The New Republic, 17 Mar. 2023
• After Charles Dickens’s death in 1870, the first biographer to narrate his life and career was his closest friend.
  — Brooke Allen, WSJ, 22 Dec. 2023
• That may explain why Ward, who gave up on America, has escaped the biographer’s gaze.
  — R.j.m. Blackett, Smithsonian Magazine, 24 Mar. 2023
• In the late 1980s, the palace was looking for an official biographer, and Mr. Zeigler was picked on the strength of his previous biographies.
  — Brian Murphy, Washington Post, 2 Mar. 2023
• Meitner's biographer, Ruth Lewin Sime, read many of the letters between the scientists of the day and concluded anti-semitism was at least part of the reason.
  — Ashraya Gupta, Scientific American, 14 Sep. 2023
• The biographer’s long description of Nero’s last hours and days, in 68 C.E., reveals what happens when a ruler loses power.
  — Mary Beard, The New Yorker, 26 June 2023
• Or so the late Apple founder, told Walter Isaacson, his biographer.
  — Vanessa Friedman, New York Times, 10 Aug. 2022
• And now exposed for it by a third detective: his biographer, Adam Sisman.
  — Dominic Green, WSJ, 27 Oct. 2023
• One leading biographer of Mary described the discovery as the most significant in the study of her life for more than a century.
  — Euan Ward, New York Times, 8 Feb. 2023
• Carlisle, a philosopher who has written studies of Spinoza and Kierkegaard, combines a biographer’s eye for stories with a philosopher’s nose for questions.
  — James Wood, The New Yorker, 4 Sep. 2023
• Milgram died in 1984, but his biographer and protege, Dr. Thomas Blass, said in an interview the behavior of the people duped in the strip-search hoaxes would not have surprised him.
  — Andrew Wolfson, The Courier-Journal, 5 May 2022
• Judith Tick proves to be the astute biographer that Fitzgerald deserves.
  — Joan Gaylord, The Christian Science Monitor, 15 Feb. 2024
• Robert Dallek, a historian and biographer of Lyndon B. Johnson, said such sclerosis had ebbed and flowed in the past.
  — New York Times, 30 May 2022
• The biographer Robert Caro and his editor, Robert Gottlieb, have been arguing with each other for 50 years.
  — Gal Beckerman, The Atlantic, 5 Jan. 2023
• Tolkien's embrace of all humanity can be seen in the premise of his beloved fantasy series, says Coren, his biographer.
  — John Blake, CNN, 3 Sep. 2022
• The queen always wanted a large family but put it off because duty came first, biographer Lacey says.
  — Maria Puente and Jeff Stinson, USA TODAY, 8 Sep. 2022
• Charles told his biographer, Jonathan Dimbleby, in 1994 that the queen was an absentee mother.
  — Maria Puente and Jeff Stinson, USA TODAY, 8 Sep. 2022
• This is a human and humane book, an insightful exploration of the biographer’s craft.
  — Dwight Garner, New York Times, 17 Apr. 2023
• There is uncertainty among some Sondheim biographers about how to view this show.
  — Michael Paulson, New York Times, 27 Sep. 2023
• Will’s attentions are diverted when Charles Nantwich, an older man who happens to have the remains of a Roman bath in his basement, asks him to be his biographer.
  — June Thomas, New York Times, 16 June 2023

Last Updated: 3 May 2024