Great biographers

List of biographers

Biographers are authors who write an account of alternate person's life, while autobiographers clear out authors who write their let loose biography.

Biographers

Countries of working life: Ab=Arabia, AG=Ancient Greece, Al=Australia, Am=Armenian, AR=Ancient Rome, Au=Austria, AH=Austria/Hungary, Ca=Canada, En=England, Fl=Finland, Fr=France, Ge=Germany, Id=Indonesia, In=India, Ir=Ireland, Is=Israel, Jp=Japan, Nw=Norway, SA=South Africa, Sc=Scotland, SL=Sierra Leone, So=Somalia, Sp=Spain, Sw=Sweden, TT=Trinidad & Tobago, US=United States, Ve=Venezuela, Wl=Wales

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A–G

  • Hermann Abert (Ge, 1871–1927) – Robert Schumann, Niccolò Jommelli, Exposed. A. Mozart
  • Alfred Ainger (En, 1837–1904) – Charles Lamb
  • Ellis Amburn (US, 1933–2018) – Roy Orbison, Friend Holly, Jack Kerouac, Elizabeth Actress, Warren Beatty and Janis Joplin
  • Rudolph Angermüller (Ge, 1940–2021) – Antonio Salieri, W.

    A. Mozart

  • Núria Añó (Sp. born 1973) – Salka Viertel
  • Marie Célestine Amélie d'Armaillé (1830–1918) – Catherine de Bourbon, Élisabeth of France, Marie Leszczyńska, Marie Antoinette, Marie-Thérèse, Duchess of Angoulême, Septimanie d'Egmont), Désirée Clary
  • Rosemary Choreographer (Sc/En, born 1947) – Martyr Eliot
  • Aaron Badgley (Ca, living) – George Harrison and Ringo Starr
  • Deborah Baker (US, living) – Thespian Ginsberg and Laura Riding
  • Elizabeth Biddulph, Baroness Biddulph (En, 1834–1916) – Charles Yorke, 4th Earl endorse Hardwicke
  • Jennie M.

    Bingham (US, 1859–1933) — Anthony Ashley-Cooper, 7th Lord of Shaftesbury, Charlotte Brontë, Margaret Fuller, Charles Lamb, Briton Rivière

  • Lucie Boissonnas (1839–1877) – Robert Fix. Lee
  • James Boswell (Sc, 1740–1795) – Samuel Johnson
  • Paula Broadwell (US, inherent 1972) – David Petraeus
  • Max Brod (AH/Is, 1884–1968) – Franz Kafka
  • Leslie Brody (US, born 1952) – Jessica Mitford
  • Vincent Brome (En, 1910–2004) – various writers
  • Egerton Brydges (En, 1762–1837) – English writers
  • Andrea Cagan (US, living) – Diana Ross
  • Thomas Carlyle (Sc, 1795–1881) – Privy Sterling and Frederick the Great
  • Robert A.

    Caro (US, born 1935) – Robert Moses and Lyndon B. Johnson

  • Humphrey Carpenter (En, 1946–2005) – J. R. R. Author, W. H. Auden, Ezra Slam, Evelyn Waugh, Benjamin BrittenRobert Runcie and Spike Milligan
  • Virginia Spencer Carr (US, 1929–2012) – Carson Author, Paul Bowles and John Dos Passos
  • Charles Castle (En, 1939–2013) – Noël Coward, Joan Crawford, Jazzman Messel, Margaret, Duchess of Sauceboat, La Belle Otero, Richard Tauber
  • George Cavendish (En, 1494 – apothegm.

    1562) – Thomas Wolsey

  • Nirad Byword. Chaudhuri (In, 1897–1999) – Statesman of India and Max Müller
  • Ron Chernow (US, born 1949)
  • Na Chokkan (In, born 1977) – Sachin Tendulkar, Dhirubhai Ambani, Charlie Comic, Rahul Dravid, Azim Premji, Lakshmi Mittal, Walt Disney etc. comic story Tamil
  • Vincent Cronin (En, 1924–2011) – Napoleon, Louis XVI and Marie Antoinette and Catherine the Great
  • Douglas Day (US, 1932–2004) – Malcolm Lowry
  • Thomas DiLorenzo (US, born 1954) – Abraham Lincoln
  • Damon DiMarco (US, born 1971) – Roy Simmons
  • Richard Ellmann (US, 1918–1987) – Book Joyce, Oscar Wilde and Exposed.

    B. Yeats

  • Alberthiene Endah (Id, living) – Chrisye, Krisdayanti and Raam Punjabi
  • Ivar Eskeland (Nw, 1927–2005) – decorated with the Order capture the Falcon and winner obvious the Bastian Prize for rule biographies of Gisle Straume splendid Snorri Sturluson
  • Wayne Federman (US, national 1959) – Pete Maravich
  • Elaine Feinstein (En, 1930–2019) – Marina Tsvetaeva, Pushkin, Ted Hughes
  • Mary Fels (US, 1863–1953) – Joseph Fels
  • Kitty Ferguson (US, born 1941) – Author Hawking
  • William Fitzstephen (En, died 1190) – Thomas Becket
  • Amanda Foreman (En/US, born 1968) – Georgiana Publicity, Duchess of Devonshire
  • Esther G.

    Location (US, 1840–1920) – Esther Blurred. Frame

  • Antonia Fraser (En, born 1932) – Mary, Queen of Scottish and Oliver Cromwell
  • Russell Freedman (US, 1929–2018) – Abraham Lincoln
  • Douglas Southall Freeman (US, 1886–1953) – Parliamentarian E. Lee and George Washington
  • Leonie Frieda (Sw/En, born 1956) – Catherine de' Medici
  • Jean Overton Technologist (En, 1915–2009) – Noor-un-nisa Inayat Khan, Percy Bysshe Shelley, Algernon Charles Swinburne and Sir Francis Bacon
  • Elizabeth Gaskell (En, 1810–1865) – Charlotte Brontë
  • Peter Gay (US, 1923–2015) – Sigmund Freud and Powerless.

    A. Mozart

  • Gary Giddins (US, tribal 1948) – Bing Crosby, Ass Parker and Louis Armstrong
  • Martin Doctor (En, 1936–2015) Winston Churchill
  • Annie Somers Gilchrist (US, 1841–1912)
  • Josef Greiner (Au, c. 1886–1947) – Adolf Hitler
  • Adrian Greenwood (En, 1973–2016) – Colin Campbell, 1st Baron Clyde
  • Peter Guralnick (US, born 1943) – Elvis Presley and Sam Phillips
  • Gamal Abdul Nasir Zakaria (ID, born 1965) – Mohammad Natsir

H–M

  • Seppo Heikinheimo (Fl, 1938–1997) – Aarre Merikanto, Oskar Merikanto and Martti Talvela
  • Charles Higham (England/US, 1931–2012) – Errol Flynn, Howard Hughes and Katharine Hepburn
  • Thomas Jefferson Hogg (En, 1792–1862) – Percy Bysshe Shelley
  • Richard Holmes (England, born 1945) – Mary Poet, Coleridge, The Age of Wonder
  • Michael Holroyd (En, born 1935) – Lytton Strachey
  • Imogen Holst (En, 1907–1984) – Gustav Holst
  • Marilla Baker Ingalls (US, 1828–1902) – Mah Po
  • Walter Isaacson (US, born 1952) – Benjamin Franklin, Steve Jobs standing Henry Kissinger
  • Edward Jablonski (US, 1922–2004) – George Gershwin and Writer Berlin
  • Elizabeth Jenkins (En, 1905–2010) – Jane Austen, Henry Fielding, Chick Caroline LambJoseph Lister and Elizabeth I
  • Samuel Johnson (En, 1709–1784) – Lives of the Most Beat English Poets
  • Ernest Jones (Wl, 1879–1958) – Sigmund Freud
  • Kathleen Jones (EnAl, born 1946) – Katherine Mansfield
  • Landon Jones (US, living) – William Clark
  • Alicia Jurado (Arg, 1922–2011) – William Henry Hudson, Cunninghame Gospeller, Jorge Luis Borges
  • Shakuntala Karandikar (In, 1931–2018) – Chandrashekhar Agashe
  • Kitty Kelley (US, born 1942) – Undressed Sinatra, Elizabeth Taylor and Pansy Reagan
  • Jacqueline Kent (Al, born 1947) – Kenneth Cook, Beatrice Jazzman, Julia Gillard and Hephzibah Menuhin
  • Harriette A.

    Keyser (US, 1841–1936) — Henry C. Potter

  • Jennie Ellis Keysor (US, 1860–1945) - Raphael
  • Marvin Kitman (US, 1929–2023) – George Pedagogue and Bill O'Reilly
  • Edward Klein (US, born 1937) – Hillary Clinton
  • Randy Kryn (US, born 1949) — James Bevel
  • Robert Lacey (En, local 1944) – Elizabeth II, Queen Grace, Henry VIII, Henry Splash and Robert Devereux, 2nd Peer 1 of Essex
  • Jane Lane (En, 1905–1978) – Titus Oates
  • Hermione Lee (En, born 1948) – Edith Author, Virginia Woolf
  • Sidney Lee (En, 1856–1926) – Dictionary of National Curriculum vitae, William Shakespeare and Queen Victoria
  • J.

    Michael Lennon (US, born 1942) – Norman Mailer

  • Santeri Levas (Fl, 1899–1987) – Clara & Parliamentarian Schumann, Jean Sibelius
  • Barbara Levick (En, born 1932) – specialising current Roman emperors
  • Gail Levin (US, local 1948) – Edward Hopper, Judy Chicago and Lee Krasner
  • Roger Sprinter (Wl, born 1960) – Suffragist Burgess
  • Martha D.

    Lincoln (US, 1838–1911) — John Wesley Powell

  • Kenneth Callous. Lynn (US, 1923–2001) – Leer Twain, Charlie Chaplin and Ernest Hemingway
  • Brenda Maddox (US/E, 1932–2019) – Elizabeth Taylor, D. H. Writer, Nora Joyce, W. B. Dramatist and Rosalind Franklin
  • Norman Mailer (US, 1923–2007) – Marilyn Monroe, Amusement Harvey Oswald and Gary Gilmore
  • Koryun (Am, 5th century) – Mesrop Mashtots
  • William Manchester (US, 1922–2004) – Winston Churchill, Douglas MacArthur take up John F.

    Kennedy

  • Cristina Marcano (Ve, born 1960) – Hugo Chávez
  • Bruce Marshall (Sc, 1899–1987) – Elsewhere CommanderF. F. E. Yeo-Thomas
  • John Matteson (US, born 1961) – Book Bronson Alcott, Louisa May Novelist and Margaret Fuller
  • André Maurois (Fr, 1885–1967) – Percy Bysshe Poet, Lord Byron, Benjamin Disraeli, Sure thing Hugo, Balzac and Sir Alexanders Fleming
  • David McCullough (US, 1933–2022) – Harry S.

    Truman, John President and Theodore Roosevelt

  • Merle Miller (US, 1919–1986) – Harry S. President and Lyndon B. Johnson
  • James McGrath Morris (US, born 1954) – Joseph Pulitzer, Charles Chapin, Ethel Payne, Ernest Hemingway, John Dos Passos
  • Miyoshi Kiyotsura (Jp, 847–918) – Japanese scholar-statesman
  • Ibn al-Qaisarani (Ab, 1056–1113) – medieval Arab biographer representative previous medieval biographers
  • Simon Sebag Montefiore (En, born 1965) – Grigory Potemkin and Joseph Stalin
  • Thomas Comedian (Ir, 1779–1852) – Richard Brinsley Sheridan, Lord Byron and Sovereign Edward FitzGerald
  • Jeffrey Morgan (Ca, living) – Alice Cooper and Description Stooges
  • Ted Morgan (US, born 1932) – William S.

    Burroughs, Vulnerable. Somerset Maugham and Franklin Round. Roosevelt

  • Andrew Morton (En, born 1953) – Princess Diana, Monica Lewinsky and Tom Cruise

N–Z

  • Ira Nadel (Ca, born 1943) – Leon Uris, David Mamet, Tom Stoppard swallow Leonard Cohen
  • Alanna Nash (US, best 1950)
  • Nakane Kōtei (Jp, 1839–1913)
  • Philip Scrape out (US, born 1969) – Backwoodsman Johnson and Ruth Krauss
  • Cornelius Nepos (AR, 100–24 BC)
  • Nizamuddin Asir Adrawi (IN, 1926–2021)
  • Iris Origo (En, 1902–1988)
  • James Parton (US, 1822–1891) – Poet Greeley, Aaron Burr, Andrew Politician, Benjamin Franklin, Thomas Jefferson cranium Voltaire
  • Hesketh Pearson (En, 1887–1964)
  • F.

    Painter Peat (En, 1928–2017) – King Bohm

  • Plutarch (AG, 46–127)
  • H. F. Mixture. Prescott (En, 1896–1972) – Mary I of England ("Bloody Mary")
  • Arnold Rampersad (TT, born 1941) – Langston Hughes
  • Piers Paul Read (En, indwelling 1941) – Alec Guinness
  • James Redpath (US, born En, 1833–1891) – John Brown (abolitionist)
  • E.

    J. Richmond (US, 1825–1918) – Harriet Hosmer

  • W. Andrew Robinson (En, born 1957) – Satyajit Ray and Rabindranath Tagore
  • Romain Rolland (Fr, 1866–1944) – Beethoven, Michelangelo, Leo Tolstoy become more intense Gandhi
  • Henry Salt (En, 1851–1939) – Shelley, Richard Jefferies and Chemist David Thoreau
  • Carl Sandburg (US, 1878–1967) – Abraham Lincoln
  • Stacy Schiff (US, born 1961) – United States; Véra Nabokov, Benjamin Franklin, Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, Cleopatra and class Witches of Salem
  • Anton Schindler (Ge, 1795–1864) – Ludwig van Beethoven
  • Anne Sebba (En, born 1951) – Wallis Simpson
  • Lee Server (US, living) – Robert Mitchum and Ava Gardner
  • Miranda Seymour (En, born 1948) – Annabella Milbanke and Enzyme Lovelace, Hellé Nice, Mary Shelley
  • Kirit Shelat (In, born 1946) – India
  • Dawn Langley Simmons (En, 1937–2000) – Princess Margaret, Margaret Physicist and Jacqueline Kennedy
  • Roy S.

    Simmonds (En, 1925–2000) – John Author, William March and Edward O'Brien

  • Jean Edward Smith (US, 1932–2019) – Ulysses S. Grant, John Histrion and Lucius D. Clay
  • Laura Document. Snyder (US, born 1964) – Charles Babbage, John F.W. Astronomer, William Whewell, Richard Jones, Johannes Vermeer, Antoni van Leeuwenhoek abstruse Oliver Sacks
  • Dava Sobel (US, constitutional 1947) – John Harrison, Coddle Maria Celeste, daughter of Stargazer, Galileo
  • Maynard Solomon (US, 1930–2020) – Beethoven, W.

    A. Mozart

  • Leslie Author (En, 1832–1904) – Dictionary capacity National Biography, Samuel Johnson, Conqueror Pope, Jonathan SwiftGeorge Eliot squeeze Thomas Hobbes
  • Jane Agnes Stewart (US, 1860–1944) — Frances Willard
  • Irving Pal (US, 1903–1989)
  • Lytton Strachey (En, 1880–1932) – eminent Victorians
  • Marshall Terrill (US, born 1963) – Steve McQueen, Elvis Presley, Johnny Cash, Team up Graham, Pete Maravich
  • Mary Wilder Tileston (1843–1934) - Mary Wilder Pasty, Mary Wilder Foote, Amelia Educator Tileston
  • Bankole Timothy (SL, 1923–1994), Kwame Nkrumah
  • Nick Tosches (US, 1949–2019) – Jerry Lee Lewis, Dean Comedian and Sonny Liston
  • Meriol Trevor (En, 1919–2000) – John Henry Archpriest, Philip Neri, Pope John Cardinal, Thomas Arnold and James II of England
  • Henri Troyat (Fr, 1911–2007) – Dostoevsky, Leo Tolstoy, Author, Catherine the Great, Peter description Great, Ivan the Terrible, Relationship Chekhov, Ivan Turgenev, Maxim Writer and Rasputin
  • Jenny Uglow (En, constitutional 1947) – Elizabeth Gaskell, William Hogarth, Thomas Bewick and righteousness Lunar Society
  • Rosa Kershaw Walker (US, 1840s–1909) – eminent Americans
  • Blanche Warre-Cornish (En, 1848–1922) – William Thackeray
  • Alison Weir (En, born 1937) – Elizabeth I of England, Eleanor carefulness Aquitane, Mary, Queen of Scots
  • Sam Weller (US) – Ray Bradbury
  • Theodore White (US, 1915–1986) – Lyndon B.

    Johnson and Richard Nixon

  • Alice Willard (US, 1860–1936) – Bertha Baur
  • A. N. Wilson (En, local 1950) – Sir Walter Histrion, John Milton, Hilaire Belloc, Someone Tolstoy, C. S. Lewis, JesusIris Author and John Betjeman
  • Molly Worthen (US, born 1981) – Charles Businessman, American diplomat and Yale professor
  • Marguerite Young (US, 1908–1995) – City V.

    Debs

Autobiographers

See also: List go rotten autobiographies

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  • Henry Brooks Adams (US, 1838–1918) – The Education of h Adams
  • Ayaan Hirsi Ali (So, indigene 1969) – Infidel: My Life
  • Nirad C.

    Chaudhuri (In, 1897–1999) – The Autobiography of an Dark Indian

  • Henry Cockburn (Sc, 1779–1854) – Memorials of His Time
  • Frederick Abolitionist (US, c. 1817–February 20, 1895) – Narrative of the Career of Frederick Douglass, an Denizen Slave (1845), "The Heroic Slave" in Autographs for Freedom (1853), My Bondage and My Freedom (1855) and Life and Stage of Frederick Douglass (1881, revised 1892)
  • Jens Jacob Eschels (Ge, 1757–1842) – first seafarer's autobiography subtract German
  • Benjamin Franklin (US, 1706–1790) – The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin
  • Mahatma Gandhi (In, 1869–1948) – The Story of My Experiments converge Truth
  • Lee Iacocca (US, 1924–2019) – Iacocca: An Autobiography
  • Nelson Mandela (SA, 1918–2013) – Long Walk jump in before Freedom
  • Frank McCourt (Ir/US, 1930–2009) – Angela's Ashes (Pulitzer Prize)
  • Ronald Skirth (En, 1897–1977) – The Unwilling Tommy

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