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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, (born 1933), United States
- James Boswell, (1740-1795) - Samuel Johnson
- Vincent Brome, (1910-2004) - various writers
- Sir Samuel Egerton Brydges, (1762-1837) - English writers
- Andrea Cagan
- Nirad C. Chaudhuri, (1897-1999) - Clive of India, Max Muller
- Thomas DiLorenzo - Abraham Lincoln
- Wayne Federman - NBA basketball legend Pete Maravich
- Martin Gilbert, England - Winston Churchill
- Peter Guralnick, (born 1943) - music industry writer
- Erika Hamilton - United States
- Michael Holroyd, (born 1935)
- William Fitzstephen, (died 1190) - Thomas a Becket
- Amanda Foreman, (born 1968) - Georgiana: Duchess of Devonshire
- 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
- Leonie Frieda, UK - Catherine de' Medici
- Edward Klein, author of The Truth About Hillary
- Robert Lacey - England
- Barbara Levick, (born 1932) - English; specialising in Roman emperors
- Roger Lewis - Anthony Burgess
- Brenda Maddox
- David McCullough
- Merle Miller, (1919-1986) - Harry S. Truman, Lyndon B. Johnson (U.S. Presidents)
- Simon Sebag Montefiore (1965- ), Potemkin, Stalin
- Alanna Nash, (born 1950), United States
- Cornelius Nepos, 100-24 BC), ancient Rome
- James Parton, (1822-1891) - Horace Greeley, Aaron Burr, Andrew Jackson, Benjamin Franklin, Thomas Jefferson, and Voltaire
- Hesketh Pearson
- Plutarch, (46-127), ancient Greece
- H. F. M. Prescott, (1896-1972), Mary I of England - 'Bloody Mary'
- Andrew Robinson, (born 1957) - Satyajit Ray and Rabindranath Tagore
- Henry Salt, (1851-1939) - English authority on Shelley, Richard Jefferies and Henry David Thoreau
- Carl Sandburg, (1878-1967) - Abraham Lincoln
- Michael Schumacher, "Dharma Lion: A Biography of Allen Ginsberg."
- Kirit Shelat - India
- Irving Stone, (1903-1989)
- Lytton Strachey, (1880-1932) - English
- Marshall Terrill - many biographies including Steve McQueen
- Alison Weir - "popular" history
- Patrick White, (1912-1990) - Australia
- A. N. Wilson - England
- Theodore White - United States
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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