biographer

Meanings

1. 1
   noun

   a person who writes an account of someone else's life, especially as a profession

   The biographer spent years studying the scientist's letters and notebooks.

Formed from biography + the agent suffix -er. Biography ultimately combines Greek bios ("life") with graphia ("writing, description"), so a biographer is literally a writer of a life.

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