Definition of Biographer

Biographer

One who writes an account or history of the life of a particular person; a writer of lives, as Plutarch.

Related Definitions:

Account, An, As, History, Life, Lives, Of, One, Or, Particular, Person, The, Who, Writer

Biographer Quotations

Almost any biographer, if he respects facts, can give us much more than another fact to add to our collection. He can give us the creative fact; the fertile fact; the fact that suggests and engenders.
Virginia Woolf

Reviewers are usually people who would have been, poets, historians, biographer, if they could. They have tried their talents at one thing or another and have failed; therefore they turn critic.
Samuel Taylor Coleridge

I'm a biographer; I can live with a little hyperbole.
Ron Chernow

My biographer said that my parties reminded them of a vicarage tea party, with sex thrown in.
Cynthia Payne

Linda Tripp has shown that a true friend is an archivist, a biographer.
Mary Schmich

Any biographer must of necessity become a pilgrim a peripatetic, obsessed literary pilgrim, a traveler with four eyes.
Leon Edel

The biographer who writes the life of his subject's self-concept passes through a fade into the inner house of life.
Leon Edel

To the biographer all lives bar none are dramatic constructions.
Katharine Anthony

More Biographer Quotations

Biographer Translations

biographer in Dutch is biograaf, levensbeschrijver
biographer in German is Biograph
biographer in Swedish is levnadstecknare

Share with your Friends

Everyone likes a good quote - don't forget to share.