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

Countries of working life: Ab=Arabia, AG=Ancient Greece, Al=Australia, Alb= Albania, Am=Armenia, AR=Ancient Rome, Au=Austria, AH=Austria/Hungary, Ca=Canada, Eg=Egypt, En=England, Fl=Finland, Fr=France, Ge=Germany, Gr=Greece, Id=Indonesia, In=India, Ir=Ireland, Is=Israel, It=Italy, Jp=Japan, Nw=Norway, Ru=Russia, 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

Hermann Abert (Ge, 1871–1927) – Niccolò Jommelli, Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart and Robert Schumann
Gino Agnese (It, 1936–2026) – Umberto Boccioni and Filippo Tommaso Marinetti
Alfred Ainger (En, 1837–1904) – Charles Lamb
Gëzim Alpion (Alb/En) – Mother Teresa
Ellis Amburn (US, 1933–2018) – Warren Beatty, Buddy Holly, Janis Joplin, Jack Kerouac, Roy Orbison and Elizabeth Taylor
Rudolph Angermüller (Ge, 1940–2021) – Antonio Salieri and Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Núria Añó (Sp, born 1973) – Salka Viertel
Marie Célestine Amélie d'Armaillé (Fr, 1830–1918) – Catherine de Bourbon, Élisabeth of France, Marie Leszczyńska, Marie Antoinette, Marie-Thérèse, Duchess of Angoulême, Septimanie d'Egmont, Désirée Clary
Margaret Aston (En, 1932–2014) – Thomas Arundel
Rosemary Ashton (Sc/En, born 1947) – George Eliot
Aaron Badgley (Ca, living) – George Harrison and Ringo Starr
Anne Baker (En, 1914–2025) – Florence Baker, Valentine Baker and Geoffrey Salmond
Deborah Baker (US, living) – Allen Ginsberg and Laura Riding
Jean-Claude Baker (Fr/US, 1943–2015) and Chris Chase (US, 1924–2013) – Josephine Baker
David Baldwin (En, 1946– 2016) – Katherine Brandon, Duchess of Suffolk, Richard III of England, Elizabeth Woodville and Richard of Shrewsbury, Duke of York
Lady Frances Balfour (En, 1858–1931) – Elsie Inglis and Lady Victoria Campbell
Lois Banner (US, born 1939) – Ruth Benedict, Greta Garbo, Marilyn Monroe and Elizabeth Cady Stanton
Angelica Bäumer (Au, 1932–2025) – Soshana Afroyim, Gustav Klimt and Erich Lessing
Mary Benson (SA, 1919–2000) – Tshekedi Khama, Albert Luthuli and Nelson Mandela
Mary Matilda Betham (En, 1776–1852) – Caroline of Brunswick
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 and Briton Rivière
Evangeline Wilbour Blashfield (US, 1858–1918) – Aphra Behn, Charlotte Aïssé, Rosalba Carriera, Gerberga II, Abbess of Gandersheim and Hrotsvitha
Lucie Boissonnas (Fr, 1839–1877) – Robert E. Lee
Martin Bommas (Ge/Eg, born 1967) – Tutankhamun
Charlotte Booth (En/Eg, born 1975) – Horemheb, Hypatia and Tutankhamun
James Boswell (Sc, 1740–1795) – Samuel Johnson
Peter Bourne (En, born 1939) – Jimmy Carter and Fidel Castro
Catherine Drinker Bowen (US, 1897–1973) – Edward Coke, Benjamin Franklin and Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr.
Paula Broadwell (US, born 1972) – David Petraeus
Sarah Bradford (En, born 1938) – Cesare Borgia, Lucrezia Borgia, Diana, Princess of Wales, Elizabeth II, George VI, Grace Kelly, Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis and Sacheverell Sitwell
David W. Blight (US, born 1949) – Frederick Douglass
Max Brod (AH/Is, 1884–1968) – Franz Kafka
Leslie Brody (US, born 1952) – Jessica Mitford
Vincent Brome (En, 1910–2004) – Clement Attlee, Aneurin Bevan, Frank Harris and H. G. Wells
Brigid Brophy (1929–1995) – Aubrey Beardsley, Ronald Firbank, Grigory Gagarin and Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Andrea Cagan (US, living) – Diana Ross
Thomas Carlyle (Sc, 1795–1881) – Frederick the Great and John Sterling
Robert A. Caro (US, born 1935) – Robert Moses and Lyndon B. Johnson
Humphrey Carpenter (En, 1946–2005) – W. H. Auden, Benjamin Britten, Spike Milligan, Ezra Pound, Robert Runcie, J. R. R. Tolkien and Evelyn Waugh
Virginia Spencer Carr (US, 1929–2012) – Paul Bowles, Carson McCullers and John Dos Passos
David C. Cassidy (US, born 1945) – Albert Einstein, Mileva Marić and J. Robert Oppenheimer
Charles Castle (En, 1939–2013) – Noël Coward, Joan Crawford, Oliver Messel, Margaret, Duchess of Argyll, La Belle Otero and 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) – Alexander Hamilton
Pasquale Chessa (It, born 1947) – Benito Mussolini
Na Chokkan (In, born 1977) – Sachin Tendulkar, Dhirubhai Ambani, Charlie Chaplin, Rahul Dravid, Azim Premji, Lakshmi Mittal, Walt Disney etc. in Tamil
Heather Clark (US, living) – Ted Hughes and Sylvia Plath
John Henrik Clarke (US, 1915–1998) – Ahmad Baba al-Timbukti, Marcus Garvey and Malcolm X
Claude Clegg (US, living) – Elijah Muhammad
Vincent Cronin (En, 1924–2011) – Napoleon, Louis XVI, Marie Antoinette and Catherine the Great
Anne de Courcy (En, born 1927) – Antony Armstrong-Jones, 1st Earl of Snowdon, Margot Asquith, Coco Chanel, Nancy Cunard, Irene Curzon, 2nd Baroness Ravensdale, Lady Alexandra Metcalfe, Lady Cynthia Mosley, Diana Mosley and Edith Vane-Tempest-Stewart, Marchioness of Londonderry
Maud Cruttwell (En, 1859 – 1939) – Donatello, Andrea Mantegna and Luca Signorelli
Douglas Day (US, 1932–2004) – Malcolm Lowry
Mahasweta Devi (In, 1926–2016) – Rani of Jhansi
Thomas DiLorenzo (US, born 1954) – Abraham Lincoln
Damon DiMarco (US, born 1971) – Roy Simmons
Rebecca Donner (US) – Mildred Harnack
Helen Dukas (Ge, 1896–1982) – Albert Einstein
Erica Armstrong Dunbar (US) – Harriet Tubman
Jonathan Eig (US, 1964) – Muhammad Ali, Martin Luther King Jr. and Jackie Robinson
Richard Ellmann (US, 1918–1987) – James Joyce, Oscar Wilde and W. B. Yeats
Marthe Emmanuel (France, 1901–1997) – Jean-Baptiste Charcot and Robert Falcon Scott
Hélène Carrère d'Encausse (Fr, 1929–2023) – Vladimir Lenin and Alexandra Kollontai
Alberthiene Endah (Id, living) – Chrisye, Krisdayanti and Raam Punjabi
Ivar Eskeland (Nw, 1927–2005) – Gisle Straume and Snorri Sturluson
Wayne Federman (US, born 1959) – Pete Maravich
Elaine Feinstein (En, 1930–2019) – Marina Tsvetaeva, Alexander Pushkin and Ted Hughes
Mary Fels (US, 1863–1953) – Joseph Fels
Kitty Ferguson (US, born 1941) – Stephen Hawking
William Fitzstephen (En, died 1190) – Thomas Becket
Sarah Foot (En, born 1961) – Æthelstan
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) – Marie Antoinette, Oliver Cromwell, Caroline Lamb, Caroline Norton and Mary, Queen of Scots
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
Gabriele Fritsch-Vivié (Gr, born 1968) – Kurt Singer and Mary Wigman
Paul Frölich (Ge, 1884–1953) – Rosa Luxemburg
Jean Overton Fuller (En, 1915–2009) – Sir Francis Bacon, Noor-un-nisa Inayat Khan, Percy Bysshe Shelley and Algernon Charles Swinburne
Elizabeth Gaskell (En, 1810–1865) – Charlotte Brontë
Peter Gay (US, 1923–2015) – Sigmund Freud and Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Gary Giddins (US, born 1948) – Louis Armstrong, Bing Crosby and Charlie Parker
Martin Gilbert (En, 1936–2015) – Winston Churchill
Annie Somers Gilchrist (US, 1841–1912) – Some representative women of Tennessee
Marcia Ann Gillespie (US, born 1944) – Maya Angelou
Josef Greiner (Au, c. 1886–1947) – Adolf Hitler
Adrian Greenwood (En, 1973–2016) – Colin Campbell, 1st Baron Clyde
Germaine Greer (En, born 1939) – Anne Hathaway
Teresa, Contessa Guiccioli (It, 1800–1873) – Lord Byron
Peter Guralnick (US, born 1943) – Elvis Presley and Sam Phillips
Ramachandra Guha (In, born 1958) – Verrier Elwin and Mahatma Gandhi

H–M

Syeda Hameed (In, born 1943) – Khwaja Ahmad Abbas, Maulana Azad and Zakir Husain
Jane Sherron De Hart (US, born 1936) – Ruth Bader Ginsburg
James Haskins (US) – Lena Horne, Scott Joplin, Rosa Parks, Pelé, Bill Robinson, Stevie Wonder and James Van Der Zee
Zahi Hawass (Eg, born 1947) – Cleopatra, Ramesses II and Tutankhamun
Seppo Heikinheimo (Fl, 1938–1997) – Aarre Merikanto, Oskar Merikanto and Martti Talvela
Carolyn Gold Heilbrun (US, 1926–2003) – Lady Ottoline Morrell and Gloria Steinem
Robert Hemenway (US, 1941–2015) – Zora Neale Hurston
Hayden Herrera (US, born 1940) – Frida Kahlo
Charles Higham (En/US, 1931–2012) – Errol Flynn, Howard Hughes and Katharine Hepburn
Laura Hillenbrand (US, born 1967) – Louis Zamperini
Thomas Jefferson Hogg (En, 1792–1862) – Percy Bysshe Shelley
Richard Holmes (En, born 1945) – Mary Shelley and Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Michael Holroyd (En, born 1935) – Lytton Strachey
Imogen Holst (En, 1907–1984) – Gustav Holst
Erik Hornung (Ge/Eg, 1933–2022) – Akhenaten and Seti I
Louise Seymour Houghton (1838–1920) – David Livingstone
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 (En/Al, born 1946) – Katherine Mansfield
Landon Jones (US, living) – William Clark
Alicia Jurado (Arg, 1922–2011) – William Henry Hudson, Cunninghame Graham, Jorge Luis Borges
Yvonne Kapp (En, 1903–1999) – Eleanor Marx
Shakuntala Karandikar (In, 1931–2018) – Chandrashekhar Agashe
Lutis Abd Al Karim (Eg) – Farida of Egypt, Ihsan Abdel Quddous and Mohammed Abdel Wahab
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
Vera Krasovskaya (Ru, 1915–1999) – Vakhtang Chabukiani, Nikita Dolgushin, Natalia Dudinskaya, Michel Fokine, Irina Kolpakova, Vaslav Nijinsky and Anna Pavlova
Brooke Kroeger (US, living) – Nellie Bly and Fannie Hurst
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
Joseph P. Lash (US, 1909–1987) – Helen Keller and Eleanor Roosevelt
Linda Lear (US, born 1940) – Beatrix Potter
David Leavitt (US, born 1961) – Alan Turing
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
Gerda Lerner (US, 1920–2013) – Angelina Grimké and Sarah Moore Grimké
Santeri Levas (Fl, 1899–1987) – Clara & Robert Schumann, Jean Sibelius
Barbara Levick (En, 1931–2023) – 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
Emil Ludwig (Ge, 1881–1948) – Otto von Bismarck, Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, William Lyon Mackenzie King, Napoleon and Wilhelm II
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
Georgina Masson (1912–1980) – Frederick II, Holy Roman Emperor and Christina, Queen of Sweden
John Matteson (US, born 1961) – Amos Bronson Alcott, Louisa May Alcott and Margaret Fuller
Rosaline Masson (En, 1867–1949) – William Edmondstoune Aytoun, Robert Pollok, Robert Louis Stevenson and William Wordsworth
André Maurois (Fr, 1885–1967) – Percy Bysshe Shelley, Lord Byron, Benjamin Disraeli, Victor Hugo, Balzac and Sir Alexander Fleming
Dorothy Moulton Mayer (En, 1886–1974) – Marie Antoinette, Angelica Kauffman, Louise of Savoy and Louis Spohr
David McCullough (US, 1933–2022) – Harry S. Truman, John Adams and Theodore Roosevelt
Jimmy McDonough (US, born 1959) – Neil Young, Andy Milligan, Russ Meyer, Tammy Wynette
Martin Meredith (En, born 1942) – Bram Fischer, Nelson Mandela and Robert Mugabe
Marguerite Merington (US, 1857–1951) – Edwin Booth and George Armstrong Custer
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
Ingeborg Møller (Nw, 1878–1964) – Henrik Steffens
Simon Sebag Montefiore (En, born 1965) – Catherine the Great, 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, 1932–2023) – William S. Burroughs, W. Somerset Maugham and Franklin D. Roosevelt
Muriel Earhart Morrissey (US, 1899–1998) – Amelia Earhart
Andrew Morton (En, born 1953) – Princess Diana, Monica Lewinsky and Tom Cruise
Malcolm Muggeridge (En, 1903–1990) – Samuel Butler, Mother Teresa and Sydney Smith

N–Z

Ira Nadel (Ca, born 1943) – Leon Uris, David Mamet, Tom Stoppard and Leonard Cohen
Nakane Kōtei (Jp, 1839–1913)
Alanna Nash (US, born 1950) – Colonel Tom Parker, Dolly Parton, Elvis Presley and Jessica Savitch
Hoda Gamal Abdel Nasser (Eg, born 1944) – Gamal Abdel Nasser
Philip Nel (US, born 1969) – Crockett Johnson and Ruth Krauss
Cornelius Nepos (AR, 100–24 BC)
Nizamuddin Asir Adrawi (IN, 1926–2021)
Vivien Noakes (En, 1937–2011) – Edward Lear
Elizabeth Norton (En) – Ælfthryth, Margaret Beaufort, Elizabeth Blount, Anne Boleyn, Anne of Cleves, Elizabeth I, Catherine Parr and Jane Seymour
Sergei Sergeyevich Oldenburg (Ru, 1888–1940) – Tsar Nicholas II
Iris Origo (En, 1902–1988) – Lauro de Bosis, Allegra Byron, Francesco Datini, Ruth Draper, Teresa, Contessa Guiccioli, Giacomo Leopardi, Cola di Rienzo, Gaetano Salvemini, Bernardino of Siena and Ignazio Silone
James Parton (US, 1822–1891) – Horace Greeley, Aaron Burr, Andrew Jackson, Benjamin Franklin, Thomas Jefferson and Voltaire
Hesketh Pearson (En, 1887–1964) – Charles Dickens, Benjamin Disraeli, Charles II of England, William Hazlitt, Henry IV of France, Henry Labouchère, Anna Seward, James McNeill Whistler and Oscar Wilde
F. David Peat (En, 1928–2017) – David Bohm
Elisabetta Piqué (It) – Pope Francis
Plutarch (AG, 46–127)
Peter Popham (En, born 1950) – Aung San Suu Kyi
H. F. M. Prescott (En, 1896–1972) – Mary I of England
Zinaida Pronchenko (Ru, born 1981) – Alain Delon and Leonardo DiCaprio
David Pryce-Jones (En, 1936–2025) – Cyril Connolly, Unity Mitford and Evelyn Waugh
June Purvis (En) – Emmeline Pankhurst
Arnold Rampersad (TT, born 1941) – Langston Hughes
Helen Rappaport (En, born 1947) – Louis Daguerre, Vladimir Lenin, Sarah Rachel Russell, Mary Seacole and Henry Fox Talbot
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
Fern Riddell (En, born 1986) – Kitty Marion and Queen Victoria
Laura Toti Rigatelli (It, 1941–2023) – Évariste Galois
W. Andrew Robinson (En, born 1957) – Satyajit Ray and Rabindranath Tagore
Noëlle Roger (Fr, 1874–1953) – Henry Dunant, Jean-Jacques Rousseau and Germaine de Staël
Romain Rolland (Fr, 1866–1944) – Beethoven, Michelangelo, Leo Tolstoy and Gandhi
Toni Rothmund (Gr, 1877–1956) – Franz Mesmer
Kate Mason Rowland (US, 1840–1998) – George Mason
Rafael Sabatini (It/En, 1875–1950) – Cesare Borgia and Tomás de Torquemada
Henry Salt (En, 1851–1939) – Shelley, Richard Jefferies and Henry David Thoreau
Anthony Sampson (En/SA, 1926–2004) – Nelson Mandela
Carl Sandburg (US, 1878–1967) – Abraham Lincoln
Anne Sayre (US, 1923–1916) – Rosalind Franklin
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
Nachman Seltzer (Is, born 1976) – David
Lee Server (US, living) – Robert Mitchum and Ava Gardner
Miranda Seymour (En, born 1948) – Ada Lovelace, Annabella Milbanke, Hellé Nice and Mary Shelley
David Shub (Ru, 1887–1973) – Vladimir Lenin and Joseph Stalin
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
Constance Babington Smith (En, 1912–2000) – Margery Blackie, Amy Johnson, Rose Macaulay, John Masefield and Julia Namier
Jean Edward Smith (US, 1932–2019) – Ulysses S. Grant, John Marshall and Lucius D. Clay
Rosita Sokou (Gr, 1923–2021) – Mario Frangoulis
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) – Maria Celeste (daughter of Galileo), Marie Curie and John Harrison
Maynard Solomon (US, 1930–2020) – Ludwig van Beethoven and Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Jonathan Sperber (US, born 1952) – Karl Marx
David Starkey (En, born 1945) – Elizabeth I and Henry VIII
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
Jeffrey C. Stewart (US, born 195o) – Alain LeRoy Locke
Irving Stone (US, 1903–1989) – Clarence Darrow and Earl Warren
Lytton Strachey (En, 1880–1932) – Thomas Arnold, Robert Dudley, 1st Earl of Leicester, Elizabeth I, Charles George Gordon, Henry Edward Manning, Florence Nightingale and Queen Victoria
Abdulla Tafa (Alb, 1947–2015) – Ibrahim Kodra and Mustafa Krantja
Marshall Terrill (US, born 1963) – Steve McQueen, Elvis Presley, Johnny Cash, Billy Graham and Pete Maravich
Annie Thayyil (In, 1918–1993) – Joan of Arc and Indira Gandhi
Ann Thwaite (En, born 1932) – Frances Hodgson Burnett, Edmund Gosse, Philip Henry Gosse, A. A. Milne and Emily, Lady Tennyson
Judith Tick (US, born 1943) – Ella Fitzgerald and Ruth Crawford Seeger
Mary Wilder Tileston (1843–1934) – Mary Wilder White, Mary Wilder Foote and Amelia Peabody Tileston
Bankole Timothy (SL, 1923–1994) – Kwame Nkrumah
Claire Tomalin (En, born 1933) – Jane Austen, Charles Dickens, Thomas Hardy, Dorothea Jordan, Katherine Mansfield, Samuel Pepys, Percy Bysshe Shelley, Ellen Ternan, H. G. Wells and Mary Wollstonecraft
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
Clara Tschudi (Nw, 1856–1945) – Marie Antoinette, Empress Elisabeth of Austria, Maria Sophie of Bavaria, Ludwig II of Bavaria, Letizia Bonaparte, Camilla Collett, Gertrude Guillaume-Schack, Eugénie de Montijo, Lina Morgenstern and Augusta of Saxe-Weimar-Eisenach
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
Kathryn Warner (En) – Edward II, Hugh Despenser the Younger, Isabella of France and Richard II of England
Lady Rose Weigall (En,1834–1921) – Princess Charlotte of Wales
Alison Weir (En, born 1937) – Anne Boleyn, Mary Boleyn, Elizabeth I of England, Eleanor of Aquitane, Isabella of France, Margaret Douglas, Countess of Lennox, Mary, Queen of Scots, Katherine Swynford and Elizabeth of York
Sam Weller (US) – Ray Bradbury
Theodore White (US, 1915–1986) – Lyndon B. Johnson and Richard Nixon
Sibyl Wilbur (US, 1871–1946) – Mary Baker Eddy
Alice Willard (US, 1860–1936) – Bertha Baur
Gertrude Marvin Williams (US, 1884–1974) – Annie Besant and Helena Blavatsky
A. N. Wilson (En, born 1950) – Sir Walter Scott, John Milton, Hilaire Belloc, Leo Tolstoy, C. S. Lewis, Jesus Iris Murdoch and John Betjeman
Barbara Winslow (US) – Shirley Chisholm and Sylvia Pankhurst
Cecil Woodham-Smith (En, 1896–1977) – Florence Nightingale and Queen Victoria
Molly Worthen (US, born 1981) – Charles Hill
Marguerite Young (US, 1908–1995) – Eugene V. Debs
Elisabeth Young-Bruehl (US, 1946–2011) – Hannah Arendt and Anna Freud
Stefan Zweig (Au, 1881–1942) – Marie Antoinette, Honoré de Balzac, Charles Dickens, Fyodor Dostoevsky, Mary Baker Eddy, Joseph Fouché, Sigmund Freud, Ferdinand Magellan, Friedrich Nietzsche, Romain Rolland and Mary, Queen of Scots

Autobiographers

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

See also

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