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biographer

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






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The rest of his career was largely devoted to complicating and enriching the portrait, transforming himself, as his best biographer, James Gindin, observed, from a satirist into a practitioner of the “novel of compassion.”

From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 3, 2026

In the words of biographer David Reynolds, Brown’s execution helped “spark” the Civil War.

From Slate • Apr. 2, 2026

Leo didn’t want to get involved in politics, he told his biographer Allen.

From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 21, 2026

He cites a particular debt to biographer Meryle Secrest’s extensive taped interviews, from the mid-1990s, with Sondheim and others.

From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 17, 2026

His mind, in the words of one biographer, was "always operating out towards the frontiers, as far as he could see, and that was a great deal further than most other men."

From "A Short History of Nearly Everything" by Bill Bryson




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