biographer

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

NOUN

author

Synonyms

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columnist composer creator journalist poet producer reporter writer

STRONG

essayist ghost ghostwriter originator playwright scribbler scribe wordsmith

WEAK

ink slinger prose writer scripter word slinger work-for-hire

NOUN

interpreter

Synonyms

STRONGEST

artist commentator editor exponent linguist philosopher scholar writer

STRONG

analyst annotator critic decoder delegate exegete expositor guide professor reviewer speaker spokesperson

WEAK

explicator glossographer paraphraser

NOUN

storyteller

Synonyms

STRONGEST

chronicler narrator poet raconteur

STRONG

bard fabulist minstrel

WEAK

fabler relator

NOUN

writer

Synonyms

STRONGEST

author columnist correspondent critic dramatist editor essayist journalist novelist poet reporter screenwriter

STRONG

contributor freelancer ghostwriter scribbler scribe stenographer stringer wordsmith

WEAK

newspaper person person of letters scripter

Antonyms

WEAK

reader

Example Sentences

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In the words of biographer David Reynolds, Brown’s execution helped “spark” the Civil War.

From Slate • Apr. 2, 2026

But Hanson's biographer and filmmaker Dr Anna Broinowski says the One Nation leader has endured as a figurehead of right-wing politics because she paints herself as a "person of the people".

From BBC • Mar. 25, 2026

Leo didn’t want to get involved in politics, he told his biographer Allen.

From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 21, 2026

There is no better literary biographer now writing than Richard Holmes.

From The Wall Street Journal • Feb. 20, 2026

According to his biographer, John Maynard Keynes, He was rather a Judaic Monotheist of the school of Maimonides.

From "Cosmos" by Carl Sagan

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