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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.
Some notable authors of biographies
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Alfred Ainger, (1837-1904) - Charles Lamb
- Ellis Amburn - United States
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James Boswell, (1740-1795) - Samuel Johnson
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Vincent Brome, (1910-2004) - various writers
- Sir Samuel Egerton Brydges , (1762-1837) - English writers
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Nirad C. Chaudhuri, (1897-1999) - Clive of India, Max Muller
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Thomas DiLorenzo - Abraham Lincoln
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William Fitzstephen, (died 1190) - Thomas a Becket
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Antonia Fraser, (born 1932) - Mary, Queen of Scots, Oliver Cromwell
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Douglas S. Freeman (1886-1953) - Robert E. Lee, George Washington
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Jean Overton Fuller - writer of verse and several biographies, including agents of S.O.E
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Martin Gilbert - England: best known for multiple books on Winston Churchill
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Michael Holroyd, (born 1935)
- Robert Lacey - England
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Barbara Levick, (born 1932) - English; specialising in Roman emperors
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Merle Miller, (1919-1986) - Harry S. Truman, Lyndon B. Johnson (U.S. Presidents)
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Hesketh Pearson
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Henry Salt, (1851-1939) - English (authority on Shelley, Richard Jefferies and Henry David Thoreau)
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Carl Sandburg, (1878-1967) - Abraham Lincoln
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Irving Stone, (1903-1989)
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Lytton Strachey, (1880-1932) - English
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Alison Weir - "popular" history
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Patrick White. (1912-1990) - Australia
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Theodore White - United States
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A. N. Wilson - England
Some notable autobiographers
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Nirad C. Chaudhuri, (1897-1999) - The Autobiography of an Unknown Indian
- Henry Cockburn, (1779-1854) - Scottish
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Lee Iacocca, (born 1924) - United States
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Frank McCourt, (born 1930) - United States - Pulitzer Prize Winner
See also
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