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

List of biographers

List of biographers

Some notable authors of biographies

Some notable autobiographers

See also