biographer

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Recent Examples of biographer But, royal biographer Kitty Kelley reported, Diana’s decision to wear the choker as a headband was an unintentional one. Rachel Burchfield, InStyle, 16 Mar. 2026 According to her biographer, Betsabé Garcia, Roig spent three years planning The Time of Cherries (the title is a reference to a famous French revolutionary song, a favorite of Natàlia’s silly Communist boyfriend at university). Colm Tóibín, The Atlantic, 14 Mar. 2026 Her biographer, Mark Oppenheimer, is a middle-aged father of five. Whitney Friedlander, Los Angeles Times, 10 Mar. 2026 What is the most difficult thing about being a biographer? Lauren Kane, The New York Review of Books, 7 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
  • Smooth Nzewi is an artist and art historian and the Steven and Lisa Tananbaum Curator in the Painting and Sculpture Department at the Museum of Modern Art, New York.
    Smooth Nzewi, Artforum, 2 Apr. 2026
  • Collected across multiple excavation projects, the items are offering historians an unprecedented look at life in the province of Gelderland–named after the legendary death rattle of a dragon–during Roman occupation.
    Andrew Paul, Popular Science, 2 Apr. 2026

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