BIOGRAPHER

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does biographer mean? 

• BIOGRAPHER (noun)
  The noun BIOGRAPHER has 1 sense:

1. someone who writes an account of a person's life

  Familiarity information: BIOGRAPHER used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• BIOGRAPHER (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Someone who writes an account of a person's life

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

Hypernyms ("biographer" is a kind of...):

author; writer (writes (books or stories or articles or the like) professionally (for pay))

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "biographer"):

autobiographer (someone who writes their own biography)

hagiographer; hagiographist; hagiologist (the author of a worshipful or idealizing biography)

Instance hyponyms:

Plutarch (Greek biographer who wrote Parallel Lives (46?-120 AD))

Giles Lytton Strachey; Lytton Strachey; Strachey (English biographer and leading member of the Bloomsbury Group (1880-1932))

Derivation:

biography (an account of the series of events making up a person's life)

 Context examples 

“Yes, my boy, these were all done prematurely before my biographer had come to glorify me.”

(The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

Two lines more prized had never fallen from the pen of the most distinguished author—never more completely blessed the researches of the fondest biographer.

(Mansfield Park, by Jane Austen)

I will do nothing serious without my trusted comrade and biographer at my elbow.

(His Last Bow, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

But, whatever might be the distress of Catherine's mind, as she thus advanced towards the parsonage, and whatever the humiliation of her biographer in relating it, she was preparing enjoyment of no everyday nature for those to whom she went; first, in the appearance of her carriage—and secondly, in herself.

(Northanger Abbey, by Jane Austen)

The enthusiasm of a woman's love is even beyond the biographer's.

(Mansfield Park, by Jane Austen)

On the other hand, it has frequently happened that he has been concerned in some research where the facts have been of the most remarkable and dramatic character, but where the share which he has himself taken in determining their causes has been less pronounced than I, as his biographer, could wish.

(The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)