- List of biographers
Biographers are
author s who write an account of another person's life, while autobiographers are authors who write their ownbiography .ome notable authors of biographies
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Alfred Ainger , (1837-1904) -Charles Lamb
*Ellis Amburn , (born 1933), United States
*Deborah Baker , United States
*James Boswell , (1740-1795) -Samuel Johnson
*Max Brod , -Franz Kafka
*Vincent Brome , (1910-2004) - various writers
* Sir Samuel Egerton Brydges, (1762-1837) - English writers
*Andrea Cagan
*Humphrey Carpenter (1946-2005) -J. R. R. Tolkien ,W. H. Auden ,Ezra Pound ,Evelyn Waugh ,Benjamin Britten ,Robert Runcie andSpike Milligan
*Virginia Spencer Carr (1929- ) -Carson McCullers ,Paul Bowles andJohn Dos Passos
*Nirad C. Chaudhuri , (1897-1999) -Clive of India ,Max Muller
*Vincent Cronin , born 1924 -Napoleon ,Louis XVI andMarie Antoinette ,Catherine the Great and others
*Douglas Day , (1932 - 2004) -Malcolm Lowry
*Thomas DiLorenzo -Abraham Lincoln
*Damon DiMarco - United States - Biographies includeRoy Simmons ,Tower Stories , andHeart of War
*Richard Ellmann - (1918-1987) -James Joyce ,Oscar Wilde andWilliam Butler Yeats
*Jens Jacob Eschels , (1757-1842) - first seafarer's autobiography in German
*Wayne Federman - NBA basketball legendPete Maravich
*William Fitzstephen , (died 1190) -Thomas a Becket
* Amanda Foreman, (born 1968) - "Georgiana: Duchess of Devonshire"
*Antonia Fraser , (born 1932) - Mary, Queen of Scots,Oliver Cromwell
*Russell Freedman (born 1929) -Abraham Lincoln and others
*Douglas S. Freeman , (1886-1953) -Robert E. Lee ,George Washington
*Leonie Frieda , UK -Catherine de' Medici
*Jean Overton Fuller - writer of verse and several biographies, including agents of S.O.E.
*Martin Gilbert , England -Winston Churchill
*Peter Guralnick , (born 1943) - music industry writer
*Charles Higham - Errol Flynn, Howard Hughes, Katharine Hepburn
*Richard Holmes , (born 1945) -Mary Shelley ,Coleridge , "The Age of Wonder"
*Michael Holroyd , (born 1935)
*Imogen Holst , -Gustav Holst
*Thomas Jefferson Hogg -Percy Bysshe Shelley
*Edward Jablonski , (1922-2004) -George Gershwin ,Irving Berlin
*Samuel Johnson , (1709-1784) - "Lives of the Most Eminent English Poets "
*Kitty Kelley - Frank Sinatra, Elizabeth Taylor, Nancy Reagan
*Edward Klein , author ofThe Truth About Hillary
*Robert Lacey -Queen Elizabeth II ,Princess Grace ,Henry VIII ,Henry Ford ,Robert Devereux, 2nd Earl of Essex
*Sidney Lee , (1856-1926) -Dictionary of National Biography ,William Shakespeare andQueen Victoria
*Barbara Levick , (born 1932) - English; specialising inRoman emperor s
*Roger Lewis -Anthony Burgess
*Brenda Maddox
*Norman Mailer - Marilyn Monroe, Lee Harvey Oswald, Gary Gilmore
*William Manchester , (1922-2004) -Winston Churchill ,Douglas MacArthur ,John F. Kennedy
*David McCullough -Harry Truman ,John Adams ,T. Roosevelt
*Grazyna Miller , (born 1957)
*Merle Miller , (1919-1986) -Harry S. Truman ,Lyndon B. Johnson (U.S. Presidents)
*Simon Sebag Montefiore (1965- ),Potemkin ,Stalin
*Ted Morgan - William Burroughs, Somerset Maugham, FDR
* Andrew Morton (1953 - )
*Alanna Nash , (born 1950), United States
*Cornelius Nepos , 100-24 BC), ancient Rome
*James Parton , (1822-1891) -Horace Greeley ,Aaron Burr ,Andrew Jackson ,Benjamin Franklin ,Thomas Jefferson , andVoltaire
*Hesketh Pearson
*Plutarch , (46-127), ancient Greece
*H. F. M. Prescott , (1896-1972),Mary I of England - 'Bloody Mary'
*Andrew Robinson , (born 1957) -Satyajit Ray andRabindranath Tagore
*Romain Rolland , (1866-1944) -Tolstoy andGandhi
*Henry Salt , (1851-1939) - English authority on Shelley,Richard Jefferies andHenry David Thoreau
*Carl Sandburg , (1878-1967) -Abraham Lincoln
*Lee Server -Robert Mitchum ,Ava Gardner
*Kirit Shelat - India
*Roy S. Simmonds , (1925-2000) -John Steinbeck ,William March andEdward O'Brien
*Jean Edward Smith , (born 1932) -Ulysses S. Grant ,John Marshall ,Lucius D. Clay
*Leslie Stephen , (1832-1904) -Dictionary of National Biography ,Samuel Johnson ,Alexander Pope ,Jonathan Swift ,George Eliot andThomas Hobbes
*Irving Stone , (1903-1989)
*Lytton Strachey , (1880-1932) - English
*Marshall Terrill - many biographies including Steve McQueen,David Thompson , andPete Maravich .
*Nick Tosches - Jerry Lee Lewis, Dean Martin, Sonny Liston
*Jenny Uglow - many, includingElizabeth Gaskell ,William Hogarth ,Thomas Bewick and theLunar Society
* Alison Weir - "popular" history
*Theodore White - United States
*A. N. Wilson - England
*Molly Worthen , (born 1981) - United States - Charles Hill, American diplomat andYale professorome notable autobiographers
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Nirad C. Chaudhuri , (1897-1999) - "The Autobiography of an Unknown Indian "
*Henry Cockburn , (1779-1854) - Scottish
*Benjamin Franklin , (1706–1790) - American
*Mahatma Gandhi , (1869-1948) - Indian "The Story of My Experiments with Truth
*Lee Iacocca , (born 1924) - United States
* Frank McCourt, (born 1930) - United States - Pulitzer Prize
*Richard Branson (born 1953) - Britishee also
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