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biographer

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






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“His forte is listening,” Cooke, the biographer, said of Lesch, whose polite, unassuming manner reflects an adult life spent mostly in San Antonio.

From Los Angeles Times • May 4, 2026

Sir Anthony Seldon, historian and biographer of prime ministers, praised the subtlety of what the King seemed to have pulled off.

From BBC • Apr. 29, 2026

“The campaign to glorify him,” wrote one biographer in 1988, “has surpassed fanatic religious fervor. The North Korean ‘sun of the nation’ shines both day and night, and it is hard to escape his ubiquity.”

From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 11, 2026

“It was a simple, calculated move,” said Zsuzsanna Szelényi, a biographer of Orbán who joined Fidesz, but later split from the party.

From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 11, 2026

Warily watching the British in Boston, “Washington frequently had Billy Lee remove his mahogany and brass spyglass from its handsome leather case so he could engage in surveillance of his adversary,” biographer Ron Chernow records.

From "In the Shadow of Liberty" by Kenneth C. Davis




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