List of biographers
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Biographers are authors who write an account of another person's life, while autobiographers are authors who write their own biography.
[edit] Some notable authors of biographies
- Alfred Ainger, (1837-1904) - Charles Lamb
- Ellis Amburn, (born 1933), United States
- James Boswell, (1740-1795) - Samuel Johnson
- Vincent Brome, (1910-2004) - various writers
- Jared Brown, born 1936 - Alfred Lunt and Lynn Fontanne, Zero Mostel, Alan J. Pakula, Moss Hart
- Sir Samuel Egerton Brydges, (1762-1837) - English writers
- Andrea Cagan
- Nirad C. Chaudhuri, (1897-1999) - Clive of India, Max Muller
- Thomas DiLorenzo - Abraham Lincoln
- Damon DiMarco - United States - Biographies include Roy Simmons and Tower Stories
- Wayne Federman - NBA basketball legend Pete 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
- Erika Hamilton - United States
- Charles Higham - Errol Flynn, Howard Hughes, Katherine Hepburn
- Michael Holroyd, (born 1935)
- Kitty Kelley - Frank Sinatra, Elizabeth Taylor, Nancy Reagan
- Edward Klein, author of The Truth About Hillary
- Robert Lacey - England
- Barbara Levick, (born 1932) - English; specialising in Roman emperors
- 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
- Robert Manso - Norman Mailer, Marlon Brando
- David McCullough
- 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
- 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, and Voltaire
- 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 and Rabindranath Tagore
- Henry Salt, (1851-1939) - English authority on Shelley, Richard Jefferies and Henry David Thoreau
- Carl Sandburg, (1878-1967) - Abraham Lincoln
- Michael Schumacher, "Dharma Lion: A Biography of Allen Ginsberg."
- Lee Server - Robert Mitchum, Ava Gardner
- Kirit Shelat - India
- Roy S. Simmonds, (1925-2000) - John Steinbeck, William March and Edward O'Brien
- Jean Edward Smith, (born 1932) - Ulysses S. Grant, John Marshall, Lucius D. Clay
- Irving Stone, (1903-1989)
- Lytton Strachey, (1880-1932) - English
- Marshall Terrill - many biographies including Steve McQueen, David Thompson, and Pete Maravich.
- Ginger Wadsworth - author of many biographies, including Laura Ingalls Wilder and John Muir.
- Nick Tosches - Jerry Lee Lewis, Dean Martin, Sonny Liston
- Alison Weir - "popular" history
- S. Westwood - author of Suicide Junkie
- Theodore White - United States
- A. N. Wilson - England
- Molly Worthen, (born 1981) - United States - Charles Hill, American diplomat and Yale professor
[edit] Some notable autobiographers
- 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
- Bujar Kocani, (born 1951)-Albania
- Frank McCourt, (born 1930) - United States - Pulitzer Prize Winner
[edit] See also
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