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.
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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