0 someone who writes the story of a particular person's life: --
Boswell was Dr Johnson's biographer.
1 someone who writes about the life of a particular person or of various people --
Most pressing, from the point of view of the urban biographer, is the question ^ of exceptionalism.
It also provides biographers with a reason for attending to the language and complexity of literary texts.
Many of the medieval biographers acknowledge their debt to members of the family for information about their subjects.
This, in fact, is what both of their eighteenthcentury biographers said about them, delighting in their reinvention of a literary relationship.
Usage critics are no more self-selected than novelists or biographers or drama critics.
Not even his biographers have bothered to mention it.
We are forced to read between the lines - the biographer rarely pauses to give his opinion on behaviour or character.
This reflected the biographer's frustration with this particular individual.
