Definitions for biographer

biographer bi·og·ra·pher

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

Biographer is a 10 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 18 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 20 points.

You can make 474 anagrams from letters in biographer (abeghioprr).

Definitions for biographer

noun

  1. a writer of someone's biography.

Origin of biographer

First recorded in 1705-15; biograph(y) + -er1

Examples for biographer

biographer Jane Ridley has written of Edward VII, “He spied on Bertie, he whipped him, he treated him as a patient.”

So early had Boswell made his resolve to be the biographer of Johnson.

But any biographer of the novel faces a problem more fundamental than compressing between two covers a vast and unwieldy subject.

“It was the first biography that made me want to become a biographer,” Spitz said.

biographer Andrew Roberts argues that history has maligned Napoleon by lumping him in with totalitarian thugs.

He wrote for humanity, as his biographer justly says, not for fame.

“I had to lie on a huge, fur rug and have a nightmare,” Prince Charles told his biographer, Jonathan Dimbleby.

Horace Traubel will be remembered, as he wished to be remembered, as the biographer of Whitman.

They are worthy of the biographer who has now well grouped and described these creatures.

Dignity and respectability have ruined alike the historian and the biographer.

Word Value for biographer
Scrable

18

Words with friends

20

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