Biographer
[baɪ'ɒɡrəfə] or [baɪ'ɑɡrəfɚ]
Definition
(n.) One who writes an account or history of the life of a particular person; a writer of lives, as Plutarch.
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Examples
- Thus far the fair auto-biographer. Harriette Wilson. The Memoirs of Harriette Wilson.
- Yes, my boy, these were all done prematurely before my biographer had come to glorify me. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes.
- The enthusiasm of a woman's love is even beyond the biographer's. Jane Austen. Mansfield Park.
- But Eginhard, the friend and biographer of Charlemagne, says that the new emperor was by no means pleased by this coup of Pope Leo's. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- This contains, acco rding to Dalton's biographer, the first quantitative statement of the heat evolved by compression and the heat ev olved by dilatation. Walter Libby. An Introduction to the History of Science.
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