biographer

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biographer

noun biographers

  1. The writer of a biography; a professional writer of biographies. Albert Bigelow Paine, his biographer to be and literary executor, who has been constantly with him, said that for the last year at least Mr. Clemens had been weary of life. When Richard Watson Gilder died, he said: "How fortunate he is. No good fortune of that kind ever comes to me."

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Closest in meaning: biography, memorialist, chronicler, annalist, historiographer, hagiographer, memoirist, author, writer, essayist, scribe, historian, documentarian, recorder, narrator, storyteller

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noun the writer of a biography

Españolbiógrafo, biógrafa
中文傳記作家 /传记作家 zhuànjì zuòjiā, 傳記作者 /传记作者 zhuànjì zuòzhě
Portuguêsbiógrafo
Françaisbiographe
DeutschBiograf
Italianobiografo
Ελληνικάβιογράφος viográfos
Românăbiograf, biografă
Русскийбио́граф biógraf

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@misc{biographer_2026,
  title = {biographer},
  howpublished = {Wiktionary, via Micwyn},
  year = {2026},
  url = {https://micwyn.com/word/biographer},
  urldate = {2026-11-06}
}