Biographer

noun

noun ·4 syllables ·Rare ·Advanced level

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Noun
  1. 1
    The writer of a biography; a professional writer of biographies.

    "Albert Bigelow Paine, his biographer to be and literary executor, who has been constantly with him, said that for the last year at least Mr. Clemens had been weary of life. When Richard Watson Gilder died, he said: "How fortunate he is. No good fortune of that kind ever comes to me.""

  2. 2
    someone who writes an account of a person's life wordnet

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annalistchroniclerdiarist

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"His biographer called him a wonderful man."

Etymology

From biography + -er.

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