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biographer

[bahy-og-ruh-fer, bee-] / baɪˈɒg rə fər, bi- /






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“The young man’s charm and obvious musical passion won him over,” the British historian and biographer Peter Ackroyd writes in “Auden.”

From The Wall Street Journal Jul. 31, 2026

But Muslim shrines have not seen the same largesse, said analyst and Modi biographer Mukhopadhyay.

From Barron's Jun. 25, 2026

It prompted an open letter to the gallery from Lord Roberts of Belgravia, a Churchill biographer - signed by more than 50 peers including Churchill's grandson Sir Nicholas Soames - saying this was incorrect.

From BBC Jun. 22, 2026

Wilson, who was the biographer for A. Philip Randolph, the iconic civil rights and labor leader, said the Ohio FBI raids “were an act of desperation that will backfire and only inspire greater voter turnout.”

From Salon Jun. 16, 2026

Newton’s modern biographer, Richard Westfall, concludes that we should regard Newton’s claim to have been surprised by the oblong image cast by the prism ‘as a rhetorical device which is not to be understood literally’.

From "The Invention of Science" by David Wootton




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