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

See also

• Lists of authors
• Category:Biographers

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