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Walter Graves Walter Graves Power
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A list of famous biographers who have documented the lives of some of the most important people of all time. All types of biographers have been listed including presidential biographers, historic biographers, and those who write non-fiction about Hollywood celebrities. With the introduction of the Nook, Kindle, and iPad with iBooks, reading is hot again. The famous biographers on this list have written accounts of people's lives that are often even better than fiction. This list is intended to help long-time readers, as well as newcomers alike with discovering (and rediscovering) some of the best biographers of all time.
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    1950
    Biographies written: Hilaire Belloc, John Milton, Leo Tolstoy, C. S. Lewis, Jesus Iris Murdoch, Sir Walter Scott, and John Betjeman
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    Alanna Nash

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    Alberthiene Endah

    Biographies written: Krisdayanti, Chrisye, and Raam Punjabi
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    1837
    Biographies written: Charles Lamb
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    1937
    Biographies written: Elizabeth I of England, Eleanor of Aquitane, and Mary
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    1968
    Biographies written: Georgiana Cavendish
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    1885
    Biographies written: Benjamin Disraeli, Sir Alexander Fleming, Victor Hugo, Percy Bysshe Shelley, Lord Byron, and Balzac
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    Andrea Cagan

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    Andrew Morton

    1953
    Biographies written: Princess Diana, Tom Cruise, and Monica Lewinsky
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    Antonia Fraser

    1932
    Biographies written: Mary and Oliver Cromwell
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    Barbara Levick

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    Biographies written: Elizabeth Taylor, Rosalind Franklin, Nora Joyce, W. B. Yeats, and D. H. Lawrence
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    1899
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    1878
    Biographies written: Abraham Lincoln
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    Charles Higham

    1931
    Biographies written: Katharine Hepburn, Errol Flynn, and Howard Hughes
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    Cornelius Nepos

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    1960
    Biographies written: Hugo Chávez
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    Damon DiMarco

    1971
    Biographies written: Roy Simmons
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    1933
    Biographies written: Harry Truman, John Adams, and Theodore Roosevelt
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    1937
    Biographies written: Jacqueline Kennedy, Princess Margaret, and Margaret Rutherford
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    1959
    Biographies written: Allen Ginsberg and Laura Riding
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    Douglas Day

    1932
    Biographies written: Malcolm Lowry
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    Douglas S. Freeman

    1886
    Biographies written: Robert E. Lee and George Washington
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    Edward Jablonski

    1923
    Biographies written: George Gershwin and Irving Berlin
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    Edward Klein

    1936
    Biographies written: The Truth About Hillary

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