Converse of object

• authorize: The first is the working archive of Peter Conradi, Iris Murdoch's authorized Biographer.

• find: In Maggie Fergusson, Mackay Brown has found the perfect biographer.

• do: How did the biographer 's subject typically make decisions?

• face: What are the particular challenges facing the biographer and what is the nature of his or her relationship with his/her subject and the reader?

• know: It was there that he met and was influenced by Walter Raleigh, a professor of English literature and well known biographer.

• become: He also described how he became the official biographer by writing a poem in Betjeman's style.

Converse of subject

• describe: John is described by one biographer as a " jovial opportunist with absolutely no money sense " .

• help: Turner's reputation has not been helped by biographers determined to see all his actions in the worst possible light.

Adjective modifier

• acclaimed: For Peter Conradi, writer, academic, acclaimed biographer of Iris Murdoch, the moment came in 1982.

• distinguished: At the Persephone Lunch on 3 July the distinguished biographer Lyndall Gordon talked about Katherine Mansfield.

• royal: The revelation was made by royal biographer Brian Hoey speaking exclusively to BBC Wales.

• literary: Claire Tomalin is our foremost literary biographer whose last book Pepys won the Whitbread Book of the Year prize.

• official: Leon Berger, who plays the devil in the festival's production, is the official biographer of Michael Flanders.

Modifies a noun

• record: Her biographer records that the Old Rectory, owned by Rev Edwin Luard, was Georgian with a separate wing known as The Glebe.

• comment: As his biographer comments: " The man who had handled millions had given them all away.

• state: For example, as his widow and biographer states, Perlman argues that the trail-blazers of civilization did have other choices.

Noun used with modifier

• official: This week the celebrated official biographer of Shaw, Michael Holroyd expressed his sadness at Mr Chappelow's " tragic end " .

• music: Power to the Pop by Michael John Baggs By day a freelance journalist, a record label consultant and a music biographer.

Possessives

• tale: Admirers and critics speculate October 2004 The biographer's tale Andrew Adonis In 1994 I asked Roy Jenkins if I could write his biography.