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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.

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Some notable authors of biographies

Some notable autobiographers

See also

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

★ Jared Brown, born 1936 - Alfred Lunt and Lynn Fontanne, Zero Mostel, Alan J. Pakula, Moss Hart

★ Sir Samuel Egerton Brydges, (1762-1837) - English writers

★ Andrea Cagan

★ Nirad C. Chaudhuri, (1897-1999) - Clive of India, Max Muller

★ Thomas DiLorenzo - Abraham Lincoln

★ Damon DiMarco - United States - Biographies include Roy Simmons and Tower Stories

★ Richard Ellmann - (1918-1987) - James Joyce, Oscar Wilde and William Butler Yeats

★ Wayne Federman - NBA basketball legend Pete Maravich

★ 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

★ Russell Freedman (born 1929) - Abraham Lincoln and others

★ Douglas S. Freeman, (1886-1953) - Robert E. Lee, George Washington

★ Leonie Frieda, UK - Catherine de' Medici

★ Jean Overton Fuller - writer of verse and several biographies, including agents of S.O.E

★ Martin Gilbert, England - Winston Churchill

★ Peter Guralnick, (born 1943) - music industry writer

★ Erika Hamilton - United States

★ Charles Higham - Errol Flynn, Howard Hughes, Katherine Hepburn

★ Michael Holroyd, (born 1935)

★ Thomas Jefferson Hogg - Percy Bysshe Shelley

★ Kitty Kelley - Frank Sinatra, Elizabeth Taylor, Nancy Reagan

★ Edward Klein, author of The Truth About Hillary

★ Robert Lacey - England

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

★ Barbara Levick, (born 1932) - English; specialising in Roman emperors

★ Roger Lewis - Anthony Burgess

★ Brenda Maddox

★ Norman Mailer - Marilyn Monroe, Lee Harvey Oswald, Gary Gilmore

★ William Manchester, (1922-2004) - Winston Churchill, Douglas MacArthur, John F. Kennedy

★ Robert Manso - Norman Mailer, Marlon Brando

★ David McCullough - Harry Truman, John Adams, T. Roosevelt

★ Merle Miller, (1919-1986) - Harry S. Truman, Lyndon B. Johnson (U.S. Presidents)

★ Simon Sebag Montefiore (1965- ), Potemkin, Stalin

★ Ted Morgan - William Burroughs, Somerset Maugham, FDR

★ 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."

★ Lee Server - Robert Mitchum, Ava Gardner

★ Kirit Shelat - India

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

★ Jean Edward Smith, (born 1932) - Ulysses S. Grant, John Marshall, Lucius D. Clay

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

★ Irving Stone, (1903-1989)

★ Lytton Strachey, (1880-1932) - English

★ Marshall Terrill - many biographies including Steve McQueen, David Thompson, and Pete Maravich.

★ Ginger Wadsworth - author of many biographies, including Laura Ingalls Wilder and John Muir.

★ Nick Tosches - Jerry Lee Lewis, Dean Martin, Sonny Liston

★ Alison Weir - "popular" history

★ S. Westwood - author of Suicide Junkie

★ Theodore White - United States

★ A. N. Wilson - England

★ Molly Worthen, (born 1981) - United States - Charles Hill, American diplomat and Yale professor

Some notable autobiographers

★ Nirad C. Chaudhuri, (1897-1999) - ''The Autobiography of an Unknown Indian''

★ Henry Cockburn, (1779-1854) - Scottish

★ Benjamin Franklin, (1706–1790) - American

★ Mahatma Gandhi, (1869-1948) - Indian ''The Story of My Experiments with Truth

★ Lee Iacocca, (born 1924) - United States

★ Bujar Kocani, (born 1951) - Albania

★ Frank McCourt, (born 1930) - United States - Pulitzer Prize

★ Richard Branson (born 1953) - British
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