WordReference Random House Learner's Dictionary of American English © 2026
WordReference Random House Unabridged Dictionary of American English © 2026
bi•og•ra•pher
(bī og′rə fər, bē-),USA pronunciation n.
- a writer of someone's biography.
- biograph(y) + -er1 1705–15
'biographer' also found in these entries (note: many are not synonyms or translations):
Aldington
- Cecil
- Froude
- Maurois
- Motion
- Nepos
- Porphyry
- Stephen
- Strachey
- Suetonius
- Trevelyan
- Allen
- biog
- bishop
- Boswell
- Bowen
- Bradford
- Chalmers
- coffin
- dobson
- freeman
- Gómez de la Serna
- Gosse
- Herndon
- Hughes
- Krutch
- lee
- leech
- lewis
- Lockhart
- Ludwig
- Morley
- Nicolay
- Nicolson
- overplay
- Plutarch
- Plutarchian
- psychographer
- Russell
- Taylor
- tick
- Waugh
- Weems
- Zweig
- Sandburg