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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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  1. 1
    1950
    Scandal, Tolstoy, God's Funeral: The Decline of Faith in Western Civilization, Londres, Essays by Divers Hands, Betjeman, C.S. Lewis, Stray, Dream Children, The Wise Virgin, Penfriends from Porlock, The Bottle in the Smoke, The Healing Art, Paul-the Mind of the Apostle, Daughters of Albion, My Name Is Legion, Winnie and Wolf: A Novel, Laird of Abbotsford, sweets of Pimlico, watch in the night, Who was Oswald Fish?, Kindly light, Eminent Victorians, life of John Milton, Hilaire Belloc, Lampitt papers, The Rise & Fall of Windsor, Lilibet, Against religion, Gentlemen in England, How can we know?, rise and fall of the House of Windsor, Unguarded hours, After the Victorians, Jesus, London, Hearing voices, Iris Murdoch, as I knew her, Tabitha stories, Carl S. Lewis - Biografia, Love unknown, More Of The World's Best Dirty Jokes, Victorians, Incline Our Hearts More
    England
    Biographies written: Hilaire Belloc, John Milton, Leo Tolstoy, C. S. Lewis, Jesus Iris Murdoch, Sir Walter Scott, and John Betjeman
  2. 2

    Alanna Nash

    Behind Closed Doors, Dolly, Dolly, Updated Edition, Dolly Parton, Elvis and the Memphis Mafia, The Colonel More
  3. 3

    Alberthiene Endah

    Bandung
    Biographies written: Krisdayanti, Chrisye, and Raam Punjabi
  4. 4
    1837
    England
    England
    Biographies written: Charles Lamb
  5. 5
    1937
    Queen Isabella, The Princes in the Tower, Six Wives of Henry VIII, Eleanor of Aquitaine, Innocent Traitor, Britain's royal families, The Sunmaid Raisin Book, Katherine Swynford, The life of Elizabeth I, Elizabeth the Queen, Bear's Big Blue House, Mary, Queen of Scots, and the Murder of Lord Darnley, The Lady Elizabeth, Children of England, The Children of Henry VIII, Isabella, Wars of the Roses, Enrique Viii, El Rey Y Su Corte, Peter, good night, Lancaster and York More
    Westminster
    United Kingdom
    Biographies written: Elizabeth I of England, Eleanor of Aquitane, and Mary
  6. 6
    1968
    Georgiana's World, Georgiana. Das lustvolle Leben der Herzogin von Devonshire., Georgiana: Duchess of Devonshire More
    United States of America, United Kingdom
    Biographies written: Georgiana Cavendish
  7. 7
    1885
    From my journal, Ariel; the life of Shelley, Périgord, Édouard VII et son temps, Nouvelles directions de la littérature française, Benjamin Disraeli, Lord Beaconsfield, collected stories of André Maurois, art de vivre, Points of view from Kipling to Graham Greene, private universe, Œuvres complètes, From Proust to Camus, Kunst zu leben, machine à lire les pensées, Why France fell, miracle of France, Tragédie en France, Titans ou les trois Dumas, Prophets and poets, Paris, Atmosphere of love, vie de Disraëli, Relativisme, Open letter to a young man, Toujours l'inattendu arrive, Napoleon in Selbstzeugnissen und Bilddokumenten, oltaire, Soixante ans de ma vie littéraire, suivi de Le Rôle de l'écrivain dans le monde d'aujourd'hui, new history of the United States, Titans, vie de Sir Alexander Fleming, nouveaux discours du Docteur O'Grady, The art of living, Malte, Tourguéniev, Byron, Aspects of biography, D'Aragon à Montherland, Climats, Auf den Spuren von Marcel Proust, De Gide à Sartre, Rouen dévasté, Estudios literarios, Morceaux choisis, Études littéraires .., time for silence, General Bramble, The thought-reading machine, Fattypuffs and Thinifers, The Weigher of Souls and the Earth Dwellers, Maurois Reader: Novels, Novelettes and Short Stories, Olympio, pays des trente-six mille volontés, Selections from André Maurois, Call no man happy, Textes choisis de André Maurois, art of happiness, climates of love, illustrated history of France, To an unknown lady, rôle of art in life and law, ́tudes américaines .., Woman without love, Lyautey, monde de Marcel Proust, Washington, the life of a patriot, Adrienne, the life of the Marquise de La Fayette, Marshall Lyautey, Mémoires, conversation, Journal, The Quest for Proust, silences du colonel Bramble, peseur d'âmes, The family circle, Deutschland, Fattypuffs & thinifers, Lélia, Ricochets, From the New Freedom to the New Frontier, Poets and prophets, Bernard Quesnay, cercle de famille, Dialogues des vivants, Aspects de la biographie, Espoirs et souvenirs, roses de septembre, Sentiments & coutumes, Anglais, history of France, chapitre suivant, Dickens, France change de visage, Memoirs, 1885-1967, Edwardian era, mondes imaginaires: Meïpe--Les souffrances du jeune Werther--Par la faute de M. de Balzac--Portrait dúne actrice--Les derniers jours de Pompéi, Seven faces of love, vision of Versailles, Lafayette in America, Titans; a three-generation biography of the Dumas, Don Juan, Amerika shi, Alexandre Dumas, Chateaubriand, Three musketeers, Mes songes que voici .., Alain, Angleterre romantique, next chapter, Ce que je crois, art of writing, Petite histoire de l'espèce humaine, Tārīkh-i Amrīkā, Études anglaises .., Terre promise, Olympio, ou, La vie de Victor Hugo, En Amérique, pays des 36,000, King Edward and his times, Public libraries and their mission, Lettre ouverte à un jeune homme sur la conduite de la vie, Chelsea way, Frédéric Chopin, Lecture, mon doux plaisir, essai sur Dickens, ...Historia de Inglaterra, silence of Colonel Bramble, Pour piano seul, Illusions, De Proust a C̀amus, Journal d'un tour en Amérique latine, women of Paris, instinct du bonheur, life of Sir Alexander Fleming, discoverer of penicillin, Mape, Mon ami Léger, Franklin, Ni ange, ni bête, art of being happily married, J.L. David, Meïpe; ou, La delivrance, Cinco rostros del amor, Lélia; the life of George Sand, Choses nues, Tragedy in France, Tragödie Frankreichs, Destins exemplaires, Cours de bonheur conjugal, Disraeli, a picture of the Victorian age, Proust: portrait of a genius, Versailles aux lumières, country of thirty-six thousand wishes, Rouen, Aux innocents les mains pleines, bourgeois de Witzheim, world of Marcel Proust, Amérique inattendue, Premiers contes, Trois portraits de femmes, voyage to the island of the Articoles, Captains and kings, Cecil Rhodes, My Latin-American diary, Proust, Chantiers américains, Ariel, A la recherche de Marcel Proust, trois Dumas, Anglaise et d'autres femmes, Portrait d'un ami qui s'appelait moi, return of Doctor O'Grady, Histoire du peuple américain, Patapoufs et Filifers, Voyage au pays des Articoles, Victor Hugo, discours du docteur O'Grady, September roses, Magiciens et logiciens, Retour en France, Poésie et action, Proust; a biography, poème de Versailles, Disraeli More
    Elbeuf
    France
    Biographies written: Benjamin Disraeli, Sir Alexander Fleming, Victor Hugo, Percy Bysshe Shelley, Lord Byron, and Balzac
  8. 8

    Andrea Cagan

    Romancing the bicycle, Up and Running, Peace Is Possible, Held Hostage, Somebody to Love?, Grace Slick, Awakening the healer within More
    United States of America
  9. 9

    Andrew Morton

    1953
    Tom Cruise: An Unauthorized Biography, Beckham & Victoria, Diana: Vrai Histoire/ Diana, Madonna, The Trees of Shropshire, Nine for Nine, Diana, Andrew, the playboy prince, Higher Biology Course Notes, Madonna, The Mel Gibson Guide to the Good Life, Tree Heritage of Britain & Ireland, Diana Su Nueva Vida, Diana Her New Life, The Royal Yacht Britannia, Diana's diary, Inside Kensington Palace, Higher Human Biology Course Notes, Questions in Higher Biology, MOI - The Making of an African Statesman, Fodor's royalty watching, Posh And Becks, Inside Buckingham Palace, Diana Cong nuong Xu Wales, Duchess, Union list of Chinese local histories in British libraries, The Wealth of the Windsors, Diana En Busca del Amor, Moi, Monica's Story, The Pocket Book of the World More
    Dewsbury
    United Kingdom, England
    Biographies written: Princess Diana, Tom Cruise, and Monica Lewinsky
  10. 10

    Antonia Fraser

    1932
    The Wild Island, Oxford Blood, Mary, Queen of Scots, Gunpowder Plot, Reinas Guerreras, S&J;Robin Hood Frazer A, Robin Hood, Love and Louis XIV: The Women in the Life of the Sun King, Marie Antoinette, The Wives of Henry VIII, Dolls, Heros and Heroines, Oxford and Oxfordshire in Verse, Cromwell, Faith and Treason, splash of red, Charles II, King James, VI of Scotland, I of England, Royal Charles, wives of Henry VIII, Kings and Queens of England, Maria Estuardo, The Cavalier Case, La Conspiracion De La Polvora, arrior queens, weaker vessel, The Tudors, Spielzeug, six wives of Henry VIII, King Charles II, 16th Century Scotland, Die sechs Frauen Heinrichs VIII, Poems, Quiet as a Nun, Heroes and Heroines, El Enigma Del Vizconde, Scottish Love Poems, Political Death, Your royal hostage, history of toys, Las Seis Mujeres de Enrique VIII, The Lives of the Kings and Queens of England, King Arthur and the Knights of the Round Table, Warrior Queens, The Stuarts, Boadicea's chariot, Women of Mystery 1, Lawrence Durrell, Love Letters, Cromwell, Our Chief of Men, Maria Stuart. Eine Biographie, Cool repentance More
    London
    United Kingdom, England
    Biographies written: Mary and Oliver Cromwell
  11. 11

    Barbara Levick

    Tiberius the politician, Claudius, government of the Roman Empire, Vespasian, The High Tide of Empire, Vespasien, Roman colonies in southern Asia Minor More
  12. 12
    Maggie, Who's afraid of Elizabeth Taylor?, married man, Pope and contraception, marrying kind, Rosalind Franklin, George's ghosts, D.H. Lawrence, The Half-parent, Krimigeschichten. D. H. Lawrence und Frieda von Richthofen, Nora, Yeats's ghosts, Nora. Das Leben der Nora Joyce, Married and gay, Freud's Wizard, The Story of a Marriage Part 2 of 2, Beyond Babel; new directions in communications, The theology of satellite television More
    Bridgewater
    United States of America
    Biographies written: Elizabeth Taylor, Rosalind Franklin, Nora Joyce, W. B. Yeats, and D. H. Lawrence
  13. 13
    1899
    white rabbit, Pater Hilarys Urlaub, divided lady, Marx the First, account of capers, fair bride, Fryd og herlighed, Urban the Ninth, world, the flesh, and Father Smith, Satan and Cardinal Campbell, Welt, das Glück und Father Smith, All glorious within, mondo, Vespers in Vienna, Operation Iscariot, Luckypenny, Prayer for the living, month of the falling leaves, fille du roi, girl from Lübeck, Children of this earth, Vaxljus brinner för Paris, black oxen, Father Hilary's holiday, This sorry scheme, messe for Paris, Flutter in the dovecote, Peter the Second, To every man a penny, Bishop, accounting, bank audit, red Danube, stooping Venus, Thoughts of my cats, Only fade away, uncertain glory, Yellow tapers for Paris, Girl in May More
    Biographies written: F.F.E. Yeo-Thomas
  14. 14
    1878
    Chicago poems, Joseffy, Slabs of the sunburnt West, You and your job, Abe Lincoln Grows Up, Lincoln's Devotional, Poems of the Midwest, American Songbag, Cornhuskers, Abraham Lincoln: The Prairie Years and the War Years, Complete poems, Smoke and steel, peuple, oui, plaint of a rose, Incidentals, María Lincoln, esposa y viuda, people, yes, New American songbag, The fiery trail, Selected poems, Billy Sunday and other poems, Grassroots, What do you think?, Early moon, Lincoln Album/Cassette #52015, Mary Lincoln, wife and widow, Soo Line sonata, Honey and salt, Lincoln, Bronze wood, Names, Complete poems, letters of Carl Sandburg, M'Liss and Louie, unga främlingarna, Good morning, America, In reckless ecstasy, Linkolʹn, Potato face, Seven poems, Arithmetic, Fables, foibles, and foobles, Six new poems and a parable, Lincoln collector, Bomber!, Breathing tokens, wedding procession of the rag doll and the broom handle and who was in it, Carl Sandburg, Chicago Race Riots, Fog and Other Poems, Sandburg range, Dikter i urval, Tumačenje ljubavi, Henry Horner, Governor Of Illinois 1878-1940, movies are, Rootabaga stories, Remembrance Rock, Storm over the land, Not Everyday an Aurora Borealis For Your Birthday, Selected poems of Carl Sandburg, From Daybreak to Good Night, Huckabuck Family, Tormenta sobre la tierra, Prairie-town boy =, Harvest poems, 1910-1960, Poems for the people, Wind Song, Rainbows are made, Home front memo, Ever the winds of chance, Always the young strangers, Lincoln preface, Sagor från Rotabagga, address by Carl Sandburg, Address of Carl Sandburg before a Joint Session of Congress, February 12, 1959, The poems, The complete poems of Carl Sandburg, Ever normal turmoil, Good morning, America, The letters of Carl Sandburg More
    Galesburg
    United States of America
    Biographies written: Abraham Lincoln
  15. 15

    Charles Higham

    1931
    The voyage to Brindisi and other poems 1966-1969, Marlene, Hollywood in the forties, The adventures of Conan Doyle, Australians abroad, Bette, the life of Bette Davis, Celebrity circus, A distant star, Errol Flynn, The films of Orson Welles, Hollywood cameramen, Warner Brothers More
    London
    United States of America, United Kingdom
    Biographies written: Katharine Hepburn, Errol Flynn, and Howard Hughes
  16. 16

    Cornelius Nepos

    Vies d'Hannibal, de Caton et d'Atticus, De vita excellentium imperatorum, Twenty lives, Cornelius Nepos, lives of illustrious men, Vitae, Vitae excellentium imperatorum, Selected Lives From Cornelius Nepos, Leben ausgezeichneter Feldherren, Des Cornelius Nepos Lebensbeschreibungen in Auswahl, Kurzbiographien und Fragmente, man for all seasons, O znamenitykh inozemnykh polkovodt︠s︡akh, Cornelii Nepotis Vitae excellentium imperatorum, Corneli Nepotis Vitae, Aemilius Probus, seu Cornelius Nepos, De vita excellentium imperatorum, Vite e frammenti, De vitis excellentium imperatorum, lives of Cornelius Nepos, Oeuvres, Three lives, vite, di Cornelio Nipote, Sechs Lebensbilder, Lives of famous men, De gli huomini illustri di Grecia, Select biographies, Vitae Cum Fragmentis, life & death of Pomponius Atticus, Miltiades, Themistocles, Aristides, Pausanias, Cimon, Liber de excellentibus ducibus, Lives of Miltiades and Epaminondas, Selectae ex Vitis excellentium imperatorum, Vides d'homes illustres, Vies des grandes capitaines de l'antiquité, Corn. Nepotis excellentium imperatorum vitæ, Quae exstant omnia, Vidas de los ilustres capitanes, Cornelii Nepotis Vitae excellentium imperatorum : cum versione Anglica, in qua verbum de verbo, quantum fieri potuit, redditur, Lives More
  17. 17
    1960
    Hugo Chavez: The Definitive Biography of Venezuela's Controversial President More
    Venezuela
    Biographies written: Hugo Chávez
  18. 18

    Damon DiMarco

    1971
    Princeton
    United States of America
    Biographies written: Roy Simmons
  19. 19
    1933
    John Adams, Mornings on Horseback, 1776, Brave Companions: Portraits in History, cruce entre dos mares, The Path Between the Seas, The Johnstown Flood: The Incredible Story Behind One of the Most Devastating "Natural" Disasters America Has Ever Known, Truman, The Great Bridge, Why history? More
    Pittsburgh
    United States of America
    Biographies written: Harry Truman, John Adams, and Theodore Roosevelt
  20. 20
    1937
    She-crab soup, sawdust trail, great white owl of Sissinghurst, two lives of Baby Doe, Jacqueline Kennedy, Dawn, a Charleston legend, The Two Worlds of Pearl S. Buck, William, Father of The Netherlands, All for love, Vinnie Ream, Princess Margaret, Mr. Jefferson's ladies, Peter Jumping Horse at the stampede, Lady Bird and her daughters, Osceola, Dear vagabonds, Margaret Rutherford, Saraband for a saint, Me papoose sitter, gypsy Condesa, rose for Mrs. Lincoln, Rosalynn Carter, her life story More
    Kent
    England
    Biographies written: Jacqueline Kennedy, Princess Margaret, and Margaret Rutherford
  21. 21
    1959
    A Blue Hand, In extremis, National Directory of Nonprofit Organizations More
    Biographies written: Allen Ginsberg and Laura Riding
  22. 22

    Douglas Day

    1932
    Malcolm Lowry: A Biography, Swifter than reason, Journey of the Wolf, Professional Conduct, 1997-98, prison notebooks of Ricardo Flores Magón More
    Panama
    Biographies written: Malcolm Lowry
  23. 23

    Douglas S. Freeman

    1886
    Lee's Lieutenants, Lee's Dispatches, Young Washington, R.E. Lee, Douglas Southall Freeman on leadership, R. E. Lee, last parade, Journalism as a vocation, George Washington: A Biography, Tax reform in Virginia, lengthening shadow of Lee, R E Lee : A Biography, Lee of Virginia More
    Lynchburg
    United States of America
    Biographies written: Robert E. Lee and George Washington
  24. 24

    Edward Jablonski

    1923
    Irving Berlin, Harold Arlen: Rhythm Rainbows & Blues, Gershwin, El Mundo de Gershwin, Man with wings, knighted skies, Atlantic fever, Warriors with wings, Pict Hist WWI YR PA, Outraged Skies, Double strike, A pictorial history of the World War II years, encyclopedia of American music, Seawings, America in the air war, Flying Fortress, Ladybirds: women in aviation, Harold Arlen: happy with the blues, Alan Jay Lerner, George Gershwin im Spiegel seiner Zeit. Portraitiert von Zeitgenossen, Gershwin remembered, Wings of Fire:Airwar Volume IV, Airwar Volume 1, The Gershwin years, Terror from the sky, Tragic victories More
    Biographies written: George Gershwin and Irving Berlin
  25. 25

    Edward Klein

    1936
    Farewell, Jackie, Kennedy curse, The Truth About Hillary, Just Jackie, parachutists, Katie, All too human More
    Biographies written: The Truth About Hillary

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