List of biographers
Biographers: Are authors who write an account of another person's life.
Autobiographer: Authors who write their own biography.
Some notable authors of biographies are:
- Alfred Ainger, (1837-1904) - Charles Lamb
- James Boswell, (1740-1795) - Samuel Johnson
- Thomas DiLorenzo - Abraham Lincoln
- William Fitzstephen, (died 1190) - Thomas a Becket
- Antonia Fraser, (born 1932) - Mary, Queen of Scots, Oliver Cromwell
- Jean Overton Fuller - writer of verse and several biographies, including agents of S.O.E
- Michael Holroyd, (born 1935)
- Barbara Levick, (born 1932) - English; specialising in Roman emperors
- 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
- Henry Cockburn, (1779-1854) - Scottish
- Lee Iacocca, (born 1924) - United States
- Frank McCourt, (born 1930) - United States - Pulitzer Prize Winner
See also: Lists of authors
If you add any authors to this list, please also consider adding them to the A-Z list of authors.
