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biographer

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






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If you’ve ever read anything by biographer Robert Caro, you get the feeling that he could wring 100 pages out of what he had for breakfast.

From Salon ● Sep. 18, 2026

“The young man’s charm and obvious musical passion won him over,” the British historian and biographer Peter Ackroyd writes in “Auden.”

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 31, 2026

“I don’t know a single Black girl who hasn’t had a profound connection to ‘Black Girl’s Window,’ ” curator and Saar’s biographer, Zoé Whitley, told The Times in a recent interview.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 28, 2026

The volumes were once part of the personal library of pioneering Indian historian Sir Jadunath Sarkar, Aurangzeb's most influential biographer.

From BBC ● Jun. 27, 2026

“The days of the small Bureau were over,” Hoover’s biographer Curt Gentry observed.

From "Killers of the Flower Moon" by David Grann




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