Example sentences for: biographer

How can you use “biographer” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

  • That the biographer doesn't actually live with, or in many instances even know, his subject; that the relationship may be involuntary (an unauthorized biography); that it's by its very nature unequal, one person focusing attention on another with no hope of reciprocity, in no way diminishes the intensity of the experience.

  • Unlike the novelist, who invents (supposedly) his characters, or the historian, who grapples with a populous cast, the biographer enters into a curious intimacy with the person being written about, a relationship charged with ambivalence, resentment, love, dependency, and all the myriad other emotions that crowd in whenever we allow ourselves to become intimate with another.

  • The consensus so far on Dutch: A Memoir of Ronald Reagan is that Edmund Morris, the biographer who inserted a fictionalized version of himself into his work, is just this side of insane and his publishers just that side of exploitative and corrupt.

  • The Economist called it "quite simply, a masterpiece of the biographer's art."

  • Even in Strachey's and the earlier Morris' wildest speculations, they hewed to an implied contract between reader and biographer that states, We'll go along with you as long as you make what you say sound like it had some basis, once upon a time, in verifiable or even plausible fact.


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