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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

One might cite—this book does not—the case of the down-on-her-luck biographer Lee Israel, who forged letters and autographs of the famous until she was caught.

From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 10, 2026

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

The experience left him, in the words of one biographer, “near hysterical.”

From "A Walk in the Woods" by Bill Bryson




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