All biographer synonyms

noun biographer

• producer — a person who produces.
• creator — The creator of something is the person who made it or invented it.
• writer — a person engaged in writing books, articles, stories, etc., especially as an occupation or profession; an author or journalist.
• columnist — A columnist is a journalist who regularly writes a particular kind of article in a newspaper or magazine.
• journalist — a person who practices the occupation or profession of journalism.
• composer — A composer is a person who writes music, especially classical music.
• poet — a person who composes poetry.
• reporter — a person who reports.
• correspondent — A correspondent is a newspaper or television journalist, especially one who specializes in a particular type of news.
• author — The author of a piece of writing is the person who wrote it.
• critic — A critic is a person who writes about and expresses opinions about things such as books, films, music, or art.
• novelist — a person who writes novels.
• dramatist — a writer of dramas or dramatic poetry; playwright.
• editor — a person having managerial and sometimes policy-making responsibility related to the writing, compilation, and revision of content for a publishing firm or for a newspaper, magazine, or other publication: She was offered a managing editor position at a small press.
• screenwriter — a person who writes screenplays, especially as an occupation or profession.
• scholar — a learned or erudite person, especially one who has profound knowledge of a particular subject.
• artist — An artist is someone who draws or paints pictures or creates sculptures as a job or a hobby.
• philosopher — a person who offers views or theories on profound questions in ethics, metaphysics, logic, and other related fields.
• linguist — a specialist in linguistics.
• commentator — A commentator is a broadcaster who gives a radio or television commentary on an event.
• narrator — a person who gives an account or tells the story of events, experiences, etc.
• raconteur — a person who is skilled in relating stories and anecdotes interestingly.
• chronicler — a chronological record of events; a history.
• ghost — the soul of a dead person, a disembodied spirit imagined, usually as a vague, shadowy or evanescent form, as wandering among or haunting living persons.
• originator — to take its origin or rise; begin; start; arise: The practice originated during the Middle Ages.
• playwright — a writer of plays; dramatist.
• scribe — Augustin Eugène [oh-gys-tan œ-zhen] /oʊ güsˈtɛ̃ œˈʒɛn/ (Show IPA), 1791–1861, French dramatist.
• scribbler — a machine for scribbling wool fibers.
• wordsmith — an expert in the use of words.
• contributor — You can use contributor to refer to one of the causes of an event or situation, especially if that event or situation is an unpleasant one.
• stenographer — a person who specializes in taking dictation in shorthand.
• freelancer — freelance (def 1).
• stringer — a person or thing that strings.
• spokesperson — a person who speaks for another or for a group.
• professor — a teacher of the highest academic rank in a college or university, who has been awarded the title Professor in a particular branch of learning; a full professor: a professor of Spanish literature.
• guide — to assist (a person) to travel through, or reach a destination in, an unfamiliar area, as by accompanying or giving directions to the person: He guided us through the forest.
• speaker — Tris(tram E.) 1888–1958, U.S. baseball player.
• delegate — A delegate is a person who is chosen to vote or make decisions on behalf of a group of other people, especially at a conference or a meeting.
• reviewer — a person who reviews.
• analyst — An analyst is a person whose job is to analyse a subject and give opinions about it.
• decoder — A decoder is a device used to decode messages or signals sent in code, for example the television signals from a satellite.
• annotate — If you annotate written work or a diagram, you add notes to it, especially in order to explain it.
• fabulist — a person who invents or relates fables.
• bard — People sometimes refer to William Shakespeare as the Bard.
• minstrel — a medieval poet and musician who sang or recited while accompanying himself on a stringed instrument, either as a member of a noble household or as an itinerant troubadour.
• scripter — the letters or characters used in writing by hand; handwriting, especially cursive writing.
• glossographer — a glossator.
• paraphraser — a restatement of a text or passage giving the meaning in another form, as for clearness; rewording.
• fable — a short tale to teach a moral lesson, often with animals or inanimate objects as characters; apologue: the fable of the tortoise and the hare; Aesop's fables.
• relator — a person who relates or tells; narrator.