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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
- Deborah Baker, United States
- James Boswell, (1740-1795) - Samuel Johnson
- Max Brod, - Franz Kafka
- Vincent Brome, (1910-2004) - various writers
- Sir Samuel Egerton Brydges, (1762-1837) - English writers
- Andrea Cagan
- Humphrey Carpenter (1946-2005) - J. R. R. Tolkien, W. H. Auden, Ezra Pound, Evelyn Waugh, Benjamin Britten, Robert Runcie and Spike Milligan
- Virginia Spencer Carr (1929- ) - Carson McCullers, Paul Bowles and John Dos Passos
- Nirad C. Chaudhuri, (1897-1999) - Clive of India, Max Muller
- Vincent Cronin, born 1924 - Napoleon, Louis XVI and Marie Antoinette, Catherine the Great and others
- Douglas Day, (1932 - 2004) - Malcolm Lowry
- Thomas DiLorenzo - Abraham Lincoln
- Damon DiMarco - United States - Biographies include Roy Simmons, Tower Stories, and Heart of War
- Richard Ellmann - (1918-1987) - James Joyce, Oscar Wilde and William Butler Yeats
- Jens Jacob Eschels, (1757-1842) - first seafarer's autobiography in German
- 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
- Charles Higham - Errol Flynn, Howard Hughes, Katharine Hepburn
- Richard Holmes, (born 1945) - Mary Shelley, Coleridge, The Age of Wonder
- Michael Holroyd, (born 1935)
- Imogen Holst, - Gustav Holst
- Thomas Jefferson Hogg - Percy Bysshe Shelley
- Edward Jablonski, (1922-2004) - George Gershwin, Irving Berlin
- Samuel Johnson, (1709-1784) - Lives of the Most Eminent English Poets
- Kitty Kelley - Frank Sinatra, Elizabeth Taylor, Nancy Reagan
- Edward Klein, author of The Truth About Hillary
- Robert Lacey - Queen Elizabeth II, Princess Grace, Henry VIII, Henry Ford, Robert Devereux, 2nd Earl of Essex
- 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
- David McCullough - Harry Truman, John Adams, T. Roosevelt
- Grazyna Miller, (born 1957)
- 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
- Andrew Morton (1953 - )
- 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
- Romain Rolland, (1866-1944) - Tolstoy and Gandhi
- Henry Salt, (1851-1939) - English authority on Shelley, Richard Jefferies and Henry David Thoreau
- Carl Sandburg, (1878-1967) - Abraham Lincoln
- 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.
- Nick Tosches - Jerry Lee Lewis, Dean Martin, Sonny Liston
- Jenny Uglow - many, including Elizabeth Gaskell, William Hogarth, Thomas Bewick and the Lunar Society
- Alison Weir - "popular" history
- Theodore White - United States
- A. N. Wilson - England
- Molly Worthen, (born 1981) - United States - Charles Hill, American diplomat and Yale professor
Some notable autobiographers
- Henry Brooks Adams, (1838 – 1918) - The Education of Henry Adams
- 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
- Frank McCourt, (born 1930) - United States - Pulitzer Prize
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