List Of Biographers

Biographers are authors who write an account of another person's life, while autobiographers are authors who write their own biography.

Some notable authors of biographies

Alfred Ainger, (1837-1904) - Charles Lamb
Ellis Amburn - United States
James Boswell, (1740-1795) - Samuel Johnson
Vincent Brome, (1910-2004) - various writers
Sir Samuel Egerton Brydges, (1762-1837) - English writers
Nirad C. Chaudhuri, (1897-1999) - Clive of India, Max Muller
Thomas DiLorenzo - Abraham Lincoln
William Fitzstephen, (died 1190) - Thomas a Becket
Antonia Fraser, (born 1932) - Mary, Queen of Scots, Oliver Cromwell
Douglas S. Freeman (1886-1953) - Robert E. Lee, George Washington
Jean Overton Fuller - writer of verse and several biographies, including agents of S.O.E
Martin Gilbert - England: best known for multiple books on Winston Churchill
Michael Holroyd, (born 1935)
Robert Lacey - England
Barbara Levick, (born 1932) - English; specialising in Roman emperors
Merle Miller, (1919-1986) - Harry S. Truman, Lyndon B. Johnson (U.S. Presidents)
Hesketh Pearson
Henry Salt, (1851-1939) - English (authority on Shelley, Richard Jefferies and Henry David Thoreau)
Carl Sandburg, (1878-1967) - Abraham Lincoln
Irving Stone, (1903-1989)
Lytton Strachey, (1880-1932) - English
Alison Weir - "popular" history
Patrick White. (1912-1990) - Australia
Theodore White - United States
A. N. Wilson - England

Some notable autobiographers

Nirad C. Chaudhuri, (1897-1999) - The Autobiography of an Unknown Indian
Henry Cockburn, (1779-1854) - Scottish
Lee Iacocca, (born 1924) - United States
Frank McCourt, (born 1930) - United States - Pulitzer Prize Winner

See also

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