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Famous Biographers
Walter Graves 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 „ - 2
Alanna Nash
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Alberthiene Endah
“ Biographies written: Krisdayanti, Chrisye, and Raam Punjabi „ - 4
1837“ Biographies written: Charles Lamb „ - 5 1937“ Biographies written: Elizabeth I of England, Eleanor of Aquitane, and Mary „
- 6 1968“ Biographies written: Georgiana Cavendish „
- 7 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 „ - 10
Antonia Fraser
1932“ Biographies written: Mary and Oliver Cromwell „ - 11
Barbara Levick
- 12 “ Biographies written: Elizabeth Taylor, Rosalind Franklin, Nora Joyce, W. B. Yeats, and D. H. Lawrence „
- 13 1899
- 14 1878“ Biographies written: Abraham Lincoln „
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Charles Higham
1931“ Biographies written: Katharine Hepburn, Errol Flynn, and Howard Hughes „ - 16
Cornelius Nepos
100 - 17 1960“ Biographies written: Hugo Chávez „
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Damon DiMarco
1971“ Biographies written: Roy Simmons „ - 19 1933“ Biographies written: Harry Truman, John Adams, and Theodore Roosevelt „
- 20 1937“ Biographies written: Jacqueline Kennedy, Princess Margaret, and Margaret Rutherford „
- 21 1959“ Biographies written: Allen Ginsberg and Laura Riding „
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Douglas Day
1932“ Biographies written: Malcolm Lowry „ - 23
Douglas S. Freeman
1886“ Biographies written: Robert E. Lee and George Washington „ - 24
Edward Jablonski
1923“ Biographies written: George Gershwin and Irving Berlin „ - 25
Edward Klein
1936“ Biographies written: The Truth About Hillary „
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