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(Top) 1 Biographers 1.1 A–G 1.2 H–M 1.3 N–Z 2 Autobiographers 3 See also

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.

Biographers

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Countries of working life: Ab=Arabia, AG=Ancient Greece, Al=Australia, Am=Armenian, AR=Ancient Rome, Au=Austria, AH=Austria/Hungary, Ca=Canada, En=England, Fl=Finland, Fr=France, Ge=Germany, Id=Indonesia, In=India, Ir=Ireland, Is=Israel, Jp=Japan, Nw=Norway, SA=South Africa, Sc=Scotland, SL=Sierra Leone, So=Somalia, Sp=Spain, Sw=Sweden, TT=Trinidad & Tobago, US=United States, Ve=Venezuela, Wl=Wales

A–G

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Hermann Abert (Ge, 1871–1927) – Robert Schumann, Niccolò Jommelli, W. A. Mozart

Alfred Ainger (En, 1837–1904) – Charles Lamb

Ellis Amburn (US, 1933–2018) – Roy Orbison, Buddy Holly, Jack Kerouac, Elizabeth Taylor, Warren Beatty and Janis Joplin

Rudolph Angermüller (Ge, 1940–2021) – Antonio Salieri, W. A. Mozart

Núria Añó (Sp. born 1973) – Salka Viertel

Marie Célestine Amélie d'Armaillé (1830–1918) – Catherine de Bourbon, Élisabeth of France, Marie Leszczyńska, Marie Antoinette, Marie-Thérèse, Duchess of Angoulême, Septimanie d'Egmont), Désirée Clary

Rosemary Ashton (Sc/En, born 1947) – George Eliot

Deborah Baker (US, living) – Allen Ginsberg and Laura Riding

Elizabeth Biddulph, Baroness Biddulph (En, 1834–1916) – Charles Yorke, 4th Earl of Hardwicke

Jennie M. Bingham (US, 1859–1933) — Anthony Ashley-Cooper, 7th Earl of Shaftesbury, Charlotte Brontë, Margaret Fuller, Charles Lamb, Briton Rivière

Lucie Boissonnas (1839–1877) – Robert E. Lee

James Boswell (Sc, 1740–1795) – Samuel Johnson

Paula Broadwell (US, born 1972) – David Petraeus

Max Brod (AH/Is, 1884–1968) – Franz Kafka

Leslie Brody (US, born 1952) – Jessica Mitford

Vincent Brome (En, 1910–2004) – various writers

Egerton Brydges (En, 1762–1837) – English writers

Andrea Cagan (US, living) – Diana Ross

Thomas Carlyle (Sc, 1795–1881) – John Sterling and Frederick the Great

Robert A. Caro (US, born 1935) – Robert Moses and Lyndon B. Johnson

Humphrey Carpenter (En, 1946–2005) – J. R. R. Tolkien, W. H. Auden, Ezra Pound, Evelyn Waugh, Benjamin Britten Robert Runcie and Spike Milligan

Virginia Spencer Carr (US, 1929–2012) – Carson McCullers, Paul Bowles and John Dos Passos

Charles Castle (En, 1939–2013) – Noël Coward, Joan Crawford, Oliver Messel, Margaret, Duchess of Argyll, La Belle Otero, Richard Tauber

George Cavendish (En, 1494 – c. 1562) – Thomas Wolsey

Nirad C. Chaudhuri (In, 1897–1999) – Clive of India and Max Müller

Ron Chernow (US, born 1949)

Na Chokkan (In, born 1977) – Sachin Tendulkar, Dhirubhai Ambani, Charlie Chaplin, Rahul Dravid, Azim Premji, Lakshmi Mittal, Walt Disney etc. in Tamil

Vincent Cronin (En, 1924–2011) – Napoleon, Louis XVI and Marie Antoinette and Catherine the Great

Douglas Day (US, 1932–2004) – Malcolm Lowry

Thomas DiLorenzo (US, born 1954) – Abraham Lincoln

Damon DiMarco (US, born 1971) – Roy Simmons

Richard Ellmann (US, 1918–1987) – James Joyce, Oscar Wilde and W. B. Yeats

Alberthiene Endah (Id, living) – Chrisye, Krisdayanti and Raam Punjabi

Ivar Eskeland (Nw, 1927–2005) – decorated with the Order of the Falcon and winner of the Bastian Prize for his biographies of Gisle Straume and Snorri Sturluson

Wayne Federman (US, born 1959) – Pete Maravich

Elaine Feinstein (En, 1930–2019) – Marina Tsvetaeva, Pushkin, Ted Hughes

Mary Fels (US, 1863–1953) – Joseph Fels

Kitty Ferguson (US, born 1941) – Stephen Hawking

William Fitzstephen (En, died 1190) – Thomas Becket

Amanda Foreman (En/US, born 1968) – Georgiana Cavendish, Duchess of Devonshire

Esther G. Frame (US, 1840–1920) – Esther G. Frame

Antonia Fraser (En, born 1932) – Mary, Queen of Scots and Oliver Cromwell

Russell Freedman (US, 1929–2018) – Abraham Lincoln

Douglas Southall Freeman (US, 1886–1953) – Robert E. Lee and George Washington

Leonie Frieda (Sw/En, born 1956) – Catherine de' Medici

Jean Overton Fuller (En, 1915–2009) – Noor-un-nisa Inayat Khan, Percy Bysshe Shelley, Algernon Charles Swinburne and Sir Francis Bacon

Elizabeth Gaskell (En, 1810–1865) – Charlotte Brontë

Peter Gay (US, 1923–2015) – Sigmund Freud and W. A. Mozart

Gary Giddins (US, born 1948) – Bing Crosby, Charlie Parker and Louis Armstrong

Martin Gilbert (En, 1936–2015) Winston Churchill

Annie Somers Gilchrist (US, 1841–1912)

Josef Greiner (Au, c. 1886–1947) – Adolf Hitler

Adrian Greenwood (En, 1973–2016) – Colin Campbell, 1st Baron Clyde

Peter Guralnick (US, born 1943) – Elvis Presley and Sam Phillips

Gamal Abdul Nasir Zakaria (ID, born 1965) – Mohammad Natsir

H–M

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Seppo Heikinheimo (Fl, 1938–1997) – Aarre Merikanto, Oskar Merikanto and Martti Talvela

Charles Higham (England/US, 1931–2012) – Errol Flynn, Howard Hughes and Katharine Hepburn

Thomas Jefferson Hogg (En, 1792–1862) – Percy Bysshe Shelley

Richard Holmes (England, born 1945) – Mary Shelley, Coleridge, The Age of Wonder

Michael Holroyd (En, born 1935) – Lytton Strachey

Imogen Holst (En, 1907–1984) – Gustav Holst

Marilla Baker Ingalls (US, 1828–1902) – Mah Po

Walter Isaacson (US, born 1952) – Benjamin Franklin, Steve Jobs and Henry Kissinger

Edward Jablonski (US, 1922–2004) – George Gershwin and Irving Berlin

Elizabeth Jenkins (En, 1905–2010) – Jane Austen, Henry Fielding, Lady Caroline Lamb Joseph Lister and Elizabeth I

Samuel Johnson (En, 1709–1784) – Lives of the Most Eminent English Poets

Ernest Jones (Wl, 1879–1958) – Sigmund Freud

Kathleen Jones (EnAl, born 1946) – Katherine Mansfield

Landon Jones (US, living) – William Clark

Alicia Jurado (Arg, 1922–2011) – William Henry Hudson, Cunninghame Graham, Jorge Luis Borges

Shakuntala Karandikar (In, 1931–2018) – Chandrashekhar Agashe

Kitty Kelley (US, born 1942) – Frank Sinatra, Elizabeth Taylor and Nancy Reagan

Jacqueline Kent (Al, born 1947) – Kenneth Cook, Beatrice Davis, Julia Gillard and Hephzibah Menuhin

Harriette A. Keyser (US, 1841–1936) — Henry C. Potter

Jennie Ellis Keysor (US, 1860–1945) - Raphael

Marvin Kitman (US, 1929–2023) – George Washington and Bill O'Reilly

Edward Klein (US, born 1937) – Hillary Clinton

Randy Kryn (US, born 1949) — James Bevel

Robert Lacey (En, born 1944) – Elizabeth II, Princess Grace, Henry VIII, Henry Ford and Robert Devereux, 2nd Earl of Essex

Jane Lane (En, 1905–1978) – Titus Oates

Hermione Lee (En, born 1948) – Edith Wharton, Virginia Woolf

Sidney Lee (En, 1856–1926) – Dictionary of National Biography, William Shakespeare and Queen Victoria

J. Michael Lennon (US, born 1942) – Norman Mailer

Santeri Levas (Fl, 1899–1987) – Clara & Robert Schumann, Jean Sibelius

Barbara Levick (En, born 1932) – specialising in Roman emperors

Gail Levin (US, born 1948) – Edward Hopper, Judy Chicago and Lee Krasner

Roger Lewis (Wl, born 1960) – Anthony Burgess

Martha D. Lincoln (US, 1838–1911) — John Wesley Powell

Kenneth S. Lynn (US, 1923–2001) – Mark Twain, Charlie Chaplin and Ernest Hemingway

Brenda Maddox (US/E, 1932–2019) – Elizabeth Taylor, D. H. Lawrence, Nora Joyce, W. B. Yeats and Rosalind Franklin

Norman Mailer (US, 1923–2007) – Marilyn Monroe, Lee Harvey Oswald and Gary Gilmore

Koryun (Am, 5th century) – Mesrop Mashtots

William Manchester (US, 1922–2004) – Winston Churchill, Douglas MacArthur and John F. Kennedy

Cristina Marcano (Ve, born 1960) – Hugo Chávez

Bruce Marshall (Sc, 1899–1987) – Wing Commander F. F. E. Yeo-Thomas

John Matteson (US, born 1961) – Amos Bronson Alcott, Louisa May Alcott and Margaret Fuller

André Maurois (Fr, 1885–1967) – Percy Bysshe Shelley, Lord Byron, Benjamin Disraeli, Victor Hugo, Balzac and Sir Alexander Fleming

David McCullough (US, 1933–2022) – Harry S. Truman, John Adams and Theodore Roosevelt

Merle Miller (US, 1919–1986) – Harry S. Truman and Lyndon B. Johnson

James McGrath Morris (US, born 1954) – Joseph Pulitzer, Charles Chapin, Ethel Payne, Ernest Hemingway, John Dos Passos

Miyoshi Kiyotsura (Jp, 847–918) – Japanese scholar-statesman

Ibn al-Qaisarani (Ab, 1056–1113) – medieval Arab biographer of previous medieval biographers

Simon Sebag Montefiore (En, born 1965) – Grigory Potemkin and Joseph Stalin

Thomas Moore (Ir, 1779–1852) – Richard Brinsley Sheridan, Lord Byron and Lord Edward FitzGerald

Jeffrey Morgan (Ca, living) – Alice Cooper and The Stooges

Ted Morgan (US, born 1932) – William S. Burroughs, W. Somerset Maugham and Franklin D. Roosevelt

Andrew Morton (En, born 1953) – Princess Diana, Monica Lewinsky and Tom Cruise

N–Z

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Ira Nadel (Ca, born 1943) – Leon Uris, David Mamet, Tom Stoppard and Leonard Cohen

Alanna Nash (US, born 1950)

Nakane Kōtei (Jp, 1839–1913)

Philip Nel (US, born 1969) – Crockett Johnson and Ruth Krauss

Cornelius Nepos (AR, 100–24 BC)

Nizamuddin Asir Adrawi (IN, 1926–2021)

Iris Origo (En, 1902–1988)

James Parton (US, 1822–1891) – Horace Greeley, Aaron Burr, Andrew Jackson, Benjamin Franklin, Thomas Jefferson and Voltaire

Hesketh Pearson (En, 1887–1964)

F. David Peat (En, 1928–2017) – David Bohm

Plutarch (AG, 46–127)

H. F. M. Prescott (En, 1896–1972) – Mary I of England ("Bloody Mary")

Arnold Rampersad (TT, born 1941) – Langston Hughes

Piers Paul Read (En, born 1941) – Alec Guinness

James Redpath (US, born En, 1833–1891) – John Brown (abolitionist)

E. J. Richmond (US, 1825–1918) – Harriet Hosmer

W. Andrew Robinson (En, born 1957) – Satyajit Ray and Rabindranath Tagore

Romain Rolland (Fr, 1866–1944) – Beethoven, Michelangelo, Leo Tolstoy and Gandhi

Henry Salt (En, 1851–1939) – Shelley, Richard Jefferies and Henry David Thoreau

Carl Sandburg (US, 1878–1967) – Abraham Lincoln

Stacy Schiff (US, born 1961) – United States; Véra Nabokov, Benjamin Franklin, Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, Cleopatra and the Witches of Salem

Anton Schindler (Ge, 1795–1864) – Ludwig van Beethoven

Anne Sebba (En, born 1951) – Wallis Simpson

Lee Server (US, living) – Robert Mitchum and Ava Gardner

Miranda Seymour (En, born 1948) – Annabella Milbanke and Ada Lovelace, Hellé Nice, Mary Shelley

Kirit Shelat (In, born 1946) – India

Dawn Langley Simmons (En, 1937–2000) – Princess Margaret, Margaret Rutherford and Jacqueline Kennedy

Roy S. Simmonds (En, 1925–2000) – John Steinbeck, William March and Edward O'Brien

Jean Edward Smith (US, 1932–2019) – Ulysses S. Grant, John Marshall and Lucius D. Clay

Laura J. Snyder (US, born 1964) – Charles Babbage, John F.W. Herschel, William Whewell, Richard Jones, Johannes Vermeer, Antoni van Leeuwenhoek and Oliver Sacks

Dava Sobel (US, born 1947) – John Harrison, Sister Maria Celeste, daughter of Galileo, Galileo

Maynard Solomon (US, 1930–2020) – Beethoven, W. A. Mozart

Leslie Stephen (En, 1832–1904) – Dictionary of National Biography, Samuel Johnson, Alexander Pope, Jonathan Swift George Eliot and Thomas Hobbes

Jane Agnes Stewart (US, 1860–1944) — Frances Willard

Irving Stone (US, 1903–1989)

Lytton Strachey (En, 1880–1932) – eminent Victorians

Marshall Terrill (US, born 1963) – Steve McQueen, Elvis Presley, Johnny Cash, Billy Graham, Pete Maravich

Bankole Timothy (SL, 1923–1994), Kwame Nkrumah

Nick Tosches (US, 1949–2019) – Jerry Lee Lewis, Dean Martin and Sonny Liston

Meriol Trevor (En, 1919–2000) – John Henry Newman, Philip Neri, Pope John XXIII, Thomas Arnold and James II of England

Henri Troyat (Fr, 1911–2007) – Dostoevsky, Leo Tolstoy, Gogol, Catherine the Great, Peter the Great, Ivan the Terrible, Anton Chekhov, Ivan Turgenev, Maxim Gorky and Rasputin

Jenny Uglow (En, born 1947) – Elizabeth Gaskell, William Hogarth, Thomas Bewick and the Lunar Society

Rosa Kershaw Walker (US, 1840s–1909) – eminent Americans

Blanche Warre-Cornish (En, 1848–1922) – William Thackeray

Alison Weir (En, born 1937) – Elizabeth I of England, Eleanor of Aquitane, Mary, Queen of Scots

Sam Weller (US) – Ray Bradbury

Theodore White (US, 1915–1986) – Lyndon B. Johnson and Richard Nixon

Alice Willard (US, 1860–1936) – Bertha Baur

A. N. Wilson (En, born 1950) – Sir Walter Scott, John Milton, Hilaire Belloc, Leo Tolstoy, C. S. Lewis, Jesus Iris Murdoch and John Betjeman

Molly Worthen (US, born 1981) – Charles Hill, American diplomat and Yale professor

Marguerite Young (US, 1908–1995) – Eugene V. Debs

Autobiographers

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Brianda de Acuña (1576–1630), Virtudes de la V. M. Teresa de Iesus, Carmelita Descalza del convento de Valladolid, en el siglo Doña Brianda de Acuña Vela

Henry Brooks Adams (US, 1838–1918) – The Education of Henry Adams

Ayaan Hirsi Ali (So, born 1969) – Infidel: My Life

Nirad C. Chaudhuri (In, 1897–1999) – The Autobiography of an Unknown Indian

Henry Cockburn (Sc, 1779–1854) – Memorials of His Time

Frederick Douglass (US, c. 1817–February 20, 1895) – Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, an American Slave (1845), "The Heroic Slave" in Autographs for Freedom (1853), My Bondage and My Freedom (1855) and Life and Times of Frederick Douglass (1881, revised 1892)

Jens Jacob Eschels (Ge, 1757–1842) – first seafarer's autobiography in German

Benjamin Franklin (US, 1706–1790) – The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin

Mahatma Gandhi (In, 1869–1948) – The Story of My Experiments with Truth

Lee Iacocca (US, 1924–2019) – Iacocca: An Autobiography

Nelson Mandela (SA, 1918–2013) – Long Walk to Freedom

Frank McCourt (Ir/US, 1930–2009) – Angela's Ashes (Pulitzer Prize)

Ronald Skirth (En, 1897–1977) – The Reluctant Tommy