biographer

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Recent Examples of biographer According to Rolling Stone, Beach Boys biographer David Leaf and Rolling Stone editor Jason Fine gave the formal eulogies. Marina Watts, People.com, 21 Aug. 2025 And so, for Alec Nevala-Lee of Oak Park, who has become an underrated biographer of Great Jerks in Science, Alvarez was perfect. Christopher Borrelli, Chicago Tribune, 13 Aug. 2025 The Pulitzer-winning biographer explores the life of the celebrated American writer. 6. Los Angeles Times, 9 July 2025 Seaman, the biographer, said Swaggart’s brand of Christianity helped raise the profile of his religious tradition. Frank E. Lockwood, Arkansas Online, 1 July 2025 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
  • Made by History takes readers beyond the headlines with articles written and edited by professional historians.
    Time, Time, 20 Sep. 2025
  • Good historians and talented fiction writers can tease out human qualities from such personages while acknowledging their fundamental distance from our own time.
    Will Collins, The Washington Examiner, 19 Sep. 2025

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