biographer（n.）
"写一个人生活和行动的描述的人"，1715年，来自 biography + -er (1)。早期的词语是 biographist (1660年代)。被写作对象的 Biographee 来自1841年。
Of every great and eminent character, part breaks forth into public view, and part lies hid in domestic privacy. Those qualities which have been exerted in any known and lasting performances may, at any distance of time, be traced and estimated; but silent excellencies are soon forgotten; and those minute peculiarities which discriminate every man from all others, if the are not recorded by those whom personal knowledge enabled to observe them, are irrecoverably lost. [Johnson, "Life of Sir Thomas Browne," 1756]
每个伟大和杰出的人物，一部分展现在公众视野中，一部分则隐藏在家庭隐私中。那些在任何已知和持久的表现中发挥的品质可以在任何时间距离内被追踪和评估； 但是沉默的优点很快就会被遗忘； 如果不是那些个人知识使他们能够观察到这些特点的人记录下来，那些区分每个人与众不同的微小特点将不可挽回地丢失。[约翰逊，《托马斯·布朗爵士的生平》，1756年]
该词起源时间：1715年