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biographer|baɪˈɒgrəfə(r)|
[f. biography n. (or its Gr. source) + -er (cf. astronomer): taking the place of the earlier biographist.]
A writer of biographies, or of the ‘life’ of a particular person.
1715Addison Freeholder No. 35 (1751) 209 Grub-street Biographers..watch for the Death of a great Man. 1790Boswell Johnson (1831) I. Introd. 48, I flatter myself that few biographers have entered upon such a work as this with more advantages. a1849H. Coleridge North. Worthies (1852) Introd. 18 He would be a local biographer. 1855Milman Lat. Chr. viii. viii, The seven or eight contemporary biographers of Becket. |