Meaning | someone who writes an account of a person's life. |
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Instances | Plutarch | Greek biographer who wrote Parallel Lives (46?-120 AD) |
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Strachey, Lytton Strachey, Giles Lytton Strachey | English biographer and leading member of the Bloomsbury Group (1880-1932) |
Narrower | autobiographer | someone who writes their own biography |
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hagiographer, hagiographist, hagiologist | The author of a worshipful or idealizing biography |
Broader | writer, author | Writes (books or stories or articles or the like) professionally (for pay) |
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Spanish | biógrafa, biógrafo |
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Catalan | biògraf |
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Nouns | biography | an account of the series of events making up a person's life |
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