A person whose life story is written about; the subject of a biography.
From biography plus the French suffix -ee (indicating the person receiving an action), like employee or lessee. This modern term parallels how English creates agent nouns for people affected by an action.
Every U.S. president automatically becomes a biographee—there are literally hundreds of biographies of George Washington alone because people can't resist telling his story again!
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