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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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Elizabeth Gaskell
1810“ Biographies written: Charlotte Brontë „ - 27
Elizabeth Jenkins
1907“ Biographies written: Elizabeth I, Henry Fielding, Jane Austen, Lady Caroline Lamb, and Joseph Lister „ - 28 1933“ Biographies written: Elizabeth Taylor, Roy Orbison, Jack Kerouac, Buddy Holly, Warren Beatty, and Janis Joplin „
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Ernest Jones
1879“ Biographies written: Sigmund Freud „ - 30
F. David Peat
1938“ Biographies written: David Bohm „ - 31
Ginger Wadsworth
“ Biographies written: Laura Ingalls Wilder, Julia Morgan, John Muir, John Burroughs, Rachel Carson, and Benjamin Banneker „ - 32
Grazyna Miller
1957 - 33 1896“ Biographies written: Mary I of England „
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1911“ Biographies written: Rasputin, Leo Tolstoy, Dostoevsky, Ivan the Terrible, Gogol, Catherine the Great, Peter the Great, Anton Chekhov, Ivan Turgenev, and Maxim Gorky „ - 35
Henry Salt
1780“ Biographies written: Shelley, Richard Jefferies, and Henry David Thoreau „ - 36
Hesketh Pearson
1887 - 37 1946“ Biographies written: W. H. Auden, J. R. R. Tolkien, Evelyn Waugh, Ezra Pound, Benjamin Britten Robert Runcie and Spike Milligan „
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Imogen Holst
1907“ Biographies written: Gustav Holst „ - 39 1903
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Ivar Eskeland
“ Biographies written: Snorri Sturluson and Gisle Straume „ - 41 1740“ Biographies written: Samuel Johnson „
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James Parton
1822“ Biographies written: Benjamin Franklin, Aaron Burr, Horace Greeley, Andrew Jackson, Thomas Jefferson and Voltaire „ - 43 1932“ Biographies written: Ulysses S. Grant, John Marshall, and Lucius D. Clay „
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Jean Overton Fuller
1915“ Biographies written: Percy Bysshe Shelley, Noor-un-nisa Inayat Khan, Algernon Charles Swinburne, and Sir Francis Bacon „ - 45
Jeffrey Morgan
“ Biographies written: Alice Cooper, The Stooges „ - 46
Jenny Uglow
“ Biographies written: William Hogarth, Elizabeth Gaskell, and Thomas Bewick „ - 47
Josef Greiner
“ Biographies written: Adolf Hitler „ - 48
Kathleen Jones
1922“ Biographies written: Katherine Mansfield „ - 49
Kirit Shelat
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Kitty Kelley
1942“ Biographies written: Elizabeth Taylor, Frank Sinatra, and Nancy Reagan „
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