| 单词 | biographer |
| 释义 | biographer (once / 1175 pages) n A biographer is a writer who specializes in true stories of other people's lives. The finished books that biographers publish are called biographies. In some cases, well-known writers, actors, and other public figures work with biographers in order to collaborate on their own biographies. Other times, biographers research the lives of their subjects after they've died. In the 1660s, they were known as biographists. The root of all variations on biography is the Late Greek biographia, "description of life," from bio-, "life," and graphia, "record or account." WORD FAMILYbiographer: biographers+/biography: biographer, biographical, biographies USAGE EXAMPLESLike the best biographers, Baird writes like a novelist, and her book is crammed with irresistible detail and description. Seattle Times(Dec 22, 2016) The analogy I favor is introspection as a personal narrative, whereby people construct stories about their lives, much as a biographer would. Time(Dec 13, 2016) Petraeus violated both the law and national security by leaking confidential information to his biographer and lover, then lied about it to the FBI. The Guardian(Nov 29, 2016) n someone who writes an account of a person's life Exp|Hypo|Hyper Plutarch Greek biographer who wrote Parallel Lives (46?-120 AD) Giles Lytton StracheyEnglish biographer and leading member of the Bloomsbury Group (1880-1932) autobiographer someone who writes their own biography hagiographer, hagiographist, hagiologistthe author of a worshipful or idealizing biography author, writer writes (books or stories or articles or the like) professionally (for pay) |
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