Crossword clues for biographer
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Biographer \Bi*og"ra*pher\, n. One who writes an account or history of the life of a particular person; a writer of lives, as Plutarch.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
1715; see biography + -er (1). Earlier was biographist (1660s).\n\nOf every great and eminent character, part breaks forth into public view, and part lies hid in domestic privacy. Those qualities which have been exerted in any known and lasting performances may, at any distance of time, be traced and estimated; but silent excellencies are soon forgotten; and those minute peculiarities which discriminate every man from all others, if the are not recorded by those whom personal knowledge enabled to observe them, are irrecoverably lost.
[Johnson, "Life of Sir Thomas Browne," 1756]
Wiktionary
n. the writer of a biography
WordNet
n. someone who writes an account of a person's life
Usage examples of "biographer".
It is the easier for the biographer to maintain this reverential attitude, inasmuch as the prayer of Agur has been fulfilled in him, he has been given neither poverty nor riches.
The biographers of Haydn have not succeeded in discovering how the Schroeter amourette ended.
An old priest, who had the highest possible opinion of me the moment I began to ask him about this truthful historian of the mother of Christ, shewed me the very place where she had written it, and assured me that the father, mother, sister, and in short all the kindred of the blessed biographer, had been great saints in their generation.
It must have been a great difficulty to the biographer to find his pathway cumbered by the volumes of 1883, set by his father as a plausible man-trap for future intruders.
Poets do it too, and essayists and memoirists and biographers and travel writers and nature writers and journalists and letter writers.
His letters, his journals, the testimony of a dozen memorialists are at the disposal of the modern biographer.
William Denton often said in his lectures that a personal relic of Shakespeare could, in half an hour, reveal more of the bard to one who had the gift of psychometry than biographers have been able to discover in 200 years.
The biographer of the troubadours relates that the king restored to him his castle of Hautefort, and this he was moved to do as requital for a matchless elegy which the poet composed on the heir of the Plantagenets.
Henri Bordeaux, who is his biographer, enable us to form a clearer and fuller conception of Camille Violand than of any of his compeers.
There is not a single passage in the Franciscan biographers which gives a more living idea of the apostolate of the Poverello.
In the preface to his first volume, he enumerates and weighs twenty Italian biographers, who have professedly treated of the same subject.
Publication of the Adams Papers began in 1961, with the first volume of the Diary and Autobiography of John Adams, under the editorial direction of Lyman Butterfield, to whom all Adams biographers and students of the Adams family are indebted.
A man of Assisi, hardly mentioned by the biographers, had attached himself to Francis.
De Quincey confronts an intending biographer of Coleridge must necessarily be multiplied many-fold by the conditions under which this work is here attempted.
Out of this free agitation sprang a literary product, great in quantity and to some degree distinguished in quality, groups of historians, poets, novelists, essayists, biographers, scientific writers.