List of biographers Guide, Meaning , Facts, Information and Description
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
- Ellis Amburn - United States
- James Boswell, (1740-1795) - Samuel Johnson
- Sir Samuel Egerton Brydges, (1762-1837) - English writers
- 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
- 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
- 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
- Henry Cockburn, (1779-1854) - Scottish
- Lee Iacocca, (born 1924) - United States
- Frank McCourt, (born 1930) - United States - Pulitzer Prize Winner
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