biographer

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Recent Examples of biographer But royal biographer and expert Robert Jobson doesn’t believe this is happening. Lizzie Lanuza, StyleCaster, 12 Apr. 2026 As her health quietly declined in 2022, the late monarch focused not on ceremony, but on creating lasting moments with the youngest members of the royal family at Balmoral Castle, according to a new book by royal biographer Robert Hardman via The Daily Mail. Stephanie Giang-Paunon , Ashley Papa, FOXNews.com, 8 Apr. 2026 There were allegedly problems, the royal biographer continues, even when Harry and Markle moved to Frogmore Cottage on the Windsor estate, near the castle where Queen Elizabeth spent most of her time. Roberta Mercuri, Vanity Fair, 6 Apr. 2026 While the hero existed — as did Athos, Porthos, and Aramis, or at least musketeers with similar names — most of the actual stories are invented, either by the sensationalist biographer or Dumas himself. Tom Chivers, semafor.com, 26 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
  • In the decades since, of course, historians have mined the tapes and other Presidential material.
    Ruth Marcus, New Yorker, 14 May 2026
  • Largely forgotten for decades, the grave site was discovered by historians and geologists using ground-penetrating radar.
    ABC News, ABC News, 14 May 2026

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