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biographer

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






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Rockefeller was worth $900 million at his peak in 1913, according to biographer Ron Chernow.

From MarketWatch ● Oct. 9, 2026

If you’ve ever read anything by biographer Robert Caro, you get the feeling that he could wring 100 pages out of what he had for breakfast.

From Salon ● Sep. 18, 2026

Farage's biographer, the veteran political journalist Michael Crick, has also noticed a shift.

From BBC ● Sep. 4, 2026

Poets often lead turbulent lives, a pattern that gives Mr. Power marvelous stories to tell when, in each chapter, he turns biographer.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 28, 2026

It is presumably for this reason that Pacioli’s first biographer, Bernardino Baldi, writing in the late sixteenth century, attributed the painting to Piero della Francesca, whose expert knowledge of the regular solids was well known.

From "The Invention of Science" by David Wootton


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