Biographer
Definition, Meaning & Examples
Part of speech noun
Quick meaning: Biographer is a noun meaning The writer of a biography; a professional writer of biographies.
Meaning
The writer of a biography; a professional writer of biographies.
Example Sentences
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."
In May 1898, for example, the funeral train of our Mr Gladstone would be brought from his country estate at Hawarden to Westminster station on the District Line via Willesden Junction. One of his biographers notes, 'Victorians saw no indignity in a coffin for a state funeral arriving by Underground.'
Word Forms
- biographers
Related Words
Related dictionary entries include biography, memorialist, chronicler, annalist, historiographer, hagiographer.
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