A professional who specializes in reconstruction in narrative form of career or phase in life of individual. Responsibilities include:

• Assembles biographical material from sources, such as news accounts, diaries, personal papers and correspondence, written accounts of events in which subject participated, and consultation with associates and relatives of subject.
• Portrays character and behavior of subject on basis of historical environment and application of psychological analysis, relating subject's activities to pertinent events during subject's lifetime (writer, prose, fiction and nonfiction).