biographer

[ bahy-og-ruh-fer, bee- ]

Synonyms for biographer

MOST RELEVANT

noun. author

noun. person who composes with language

noun. person who composes with language

Word Origin & History

1715; see biography + -er (1). Earlier was biographist (1660s).

He wrote for humanity, as his biographer justly says, not for fame.

Dignity and respectability have ruined alike the historian and the biographer.

So early had Boswell made his resolve to be the biographer of Johnson.

They are worthy of the biographer who has now well grouped and described these creatures.

Horace Traubel will be remembered, as he wished to be remembered, as the biographer of Whitman.

His biographer credits him with one hundred and thirty-three.

Not least among them that of her biographer, Mr. Harness himself, who was so valued by his friends.

But here again my aim is neither that of the commentator nor that of the biographer.

The one defect acknowledged by his biographer was his partiality for women.

Romancist and biographer are one as we study the picture line by line.