What people are saying

Loved by the people telling their stories — and the families keeping them.

Biographer is used by parents, grandparents, and families who want more than a prompt or a blank page. They want the stories, the voice, and the details that only one person can tell.

The parents who use it, and the families who gave it.
Featured stories

Both sides of the gift.

Told her own story

"I didn't think anyone would want my stories. Boswell made me feel like every one of them mattered — and now my daughters have them in writing."

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Deborah B., 73
Telling her own story
Telling his life story

"It doesn't feel like typing into a machine. It feels like the long talks I used to have on the porch — except this time, it's all being saved."

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Howard R., 68
Telling his life story
Gave it to her father

"My dad never would have written a memoir. He talked for ten minutes and the family got a whole chapter about meeting my mom."

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Carrie W.
Gave it to her father
Gave it to his mom

"I gave it to my mom and now we're learning new things about her every day. She shares, and we follow along as the chapters arrive."

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Steve M.
Gave it to his mom
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Parents & grandparents

"I'm 71. I always told myself I'd write it down someday. Boswell just asked the right question, and someday finally came."

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Margaret L., 71
Telling her own story
Parents & grandparents

"Every Sunday I tell Boswell one story. By Tuesday my grandkids have a new chapter to read. It's become our little ritual."

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Frank D., 79
Grandfather of five
Parents & grandparents

"Boswell remembered a detail from three weeks earlier and asked me about it. That's the moment I stopped thinking of it as a machine."

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Carol M., 74
Telling her own story
Gift givers

"I gave it to my mother for her birthday. She called me that night, crying — the good kind. Best gift I've given anyone."

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Allison T.
Gave it to her mother
Gift givers

"Best thing I've ever given my dad. He thinks he's just chatting. The rest of us know we're getting a book."

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Marcus W.
Gave it to his father
Families reading along

"We read each new chapter out loud at Sunday dinner. The kids ask questions about Grandma we never knew to ask."

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The Okafor family
Reading the chapters
Families reading along

"I found out my grandmother proposed to my grandfather. Sixty years married and not one of us had ever heard that story."

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Priya N.
Reading along with her grandmother
Never thought they'd write a memoir

"I am not a writer. I said that for forty years. Turns out I just needed someone to ask the questions."

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Ray S., 66
Telling his own story
Never thought they'd write a memoir

"I hate the blank page. Always have. There is no blank page here — it's just a conversation, and the writing takes care of itself."

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Tom B.
Telling his own story
How it actually went

Three stories that almost weren't told.

i.

"My dad never would have written a memoir."

The problem
He would not sit down and write. Not for himself, not for anyone.
The moment
He just talked. Ten minutes about an afternoon in 1976.
The outcome
The family received a finished chapter about the day he met his wife.
ii.

"I accomplished more in 2.5 hours than in a year of writing by hand."

The problem
Writing by hand was slow. A year in, the notebook was still mostly blank.
The moment
Biographer made it conversational. Answering felt nothing like writing.
The outcome
Momentum — and the kind of excitement that makes you keep going.
iii.

"We're learning new things about her every day."

The problem
Family stories were scattered — half-remembered, never written down.
The moment
Mom began sharing regularly — a story or two, most weeks.
The outcome
The whole family follows along as new chapters arrive.
See what they're reviewing

A conversation becomes a keepsake.

It starts with talking. It ends with something your family will actually keep.

A conversation
What's the first house you can really remember?
JC
the attic. dad's old records were up there.
A finished chapter
Chapter Two · The Attic

The records lived in the attic, and so, for a while, did I. On the days the house got loud, I'd climb up to where the dust hung in the window light and put the needle down…

A growing book
The Early Years
Becoming a Parent
Career Journey
Wisdom & Legacy
A family keepsake
A Life, In My Own Words

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