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biographer

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






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According to biographer William J. Simmons, Woods was uninterested in saloons, instead devoting himself to studying an emerging technology—electricity.

From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 18, 2026

“It was a simple, calculated move,” said Zsuzsanna Szelényi, a biographer of Orbán who joined Fidesz, but later split from the party.

From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 11, 2026

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

From Slate • Apr. 2, 2026

He cites a particular debt to biographer Meryle Secrest’s extensive taped interviews, from the mid-1990s, with Sondheim and others.

From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 17, 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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