Biographers are authors who write an account of another person's life, while autobiographers are authors who write their own biography .
Biographers
Countries of working life: Ab=Arabia, AG=Ancient Greece, Al=Australia, Am=Armenian, AR=Ancient Rome, Au=Austria, AH=Austria/Hungary, Ca=Canada, En=England, Fl=Finland, Fr=France, Ge=Germany, Id=Indonesia, In=India, Ir=Ireland, Is=Israel, Jp=Japan, Nw=Norway, SA=South Africa, Sc=Scotland, SL=Sierra Leone, So=Somalia, Sp=Spain, Sw=Sweden, TT=Trinidad & Tobago, US=United States, Ve=Venezuela, Wl=Wales
A–G
Hermann Abert (Ge, 1871–1927) – Robert Schumann , Niccolò Jommelli , W. A. Mozart Alfred Ainger (En, 1837–1904) – Charles Lamb Ellis Amburn (US, 1933–2018) – Roy Orbison , Buddy Holly , Jack Kerouac , Elizabeth Taylor , Warren Beatty and Janis Joplin Rudolph Angermüller (Ge, 1940–2021) – Antonio Salieri , W. A. Mozart Núria Añó (Sp. born 1973) – Salka Viertel Marie Célestine Amélie d'Armaillé (1830–1918) – Catherine de Bourbon , Élisabeth of France , Marie Leszczyńska , Marie Antoinette , Marie-Thérèse, Duchess of Angoulême , Septimanie d'Egmont ), Désirée Clary Rosemary Ashton (Sc/En, born 1947) – George Eliot Deborah Baker (US, living) – Allen Ginsberg and Laura Riding Elizabeth Biddulph, Baroness Biddulph (En, 1834–1916) – Charles Yorke, 4th Earl of Hardwicke Jennie M. Bingham (US, 1859–1933) — Anthony Ashley-Cooper, 7th Earl of Shaftesbury , Charlotte Brontë , Margaret Fuller , Charles Lamb , Briton Rivière Lucie Boissonnas (1839–1877) – Robert E. Lee James Boswell (Sc, 1740–1795) – Samuel Johnson Paula Broadwell (US, born 1972) – David Petraeus Max Brod (AH/Is, 1884–1968) – Franz Kafka Leslie Brody (US, born 1952) – Jessica Mitford Vincent Brome (En, 1910–2004) – various writersEgerton Brydges (En, 1762–1837) – English writersAndrea Cagan (US, living) – Diana Ross Thomas Carlyle (Sc, 1795–1881) – John Sterling and Frederick the Great Robert A. Caro (US, born 1935) – Robert Moses and Lyndon B. Johnson Humphrey Carpenter (En, 1946–2005) – J. R. R. Tolkien , W. H. Auden , Ezra Pound , Evelyn Waugh , Benjamin Britten Robert Runcie and Spike Milligan Virginia Spencer Carr (US, 1929–2012) – Carson McCullers , Paul Bowles and John Dos Passos Charles Castle (En, 1939–2013) – Noël Coward , Joan Crawford , Oliver Messel , Margaret, Duchess of Argyll , La Belle Otero , Richard Tauber George Cavendish (En, 1494 – c. 1562) – Thomas Wolsey Nirad C. Chaudhuri (In, 1897–1999) – Clive of India and Max Müller Ron Chernow (US, born 1949)Na Chokkan (In, born 1977) – Sachin Tendulkar , Dhirubhai Ambani , Charlie Chaplin , Rahul Dravid , Azim Premji , Lakshmi Mittal , Walt Disney etc. in Tamil Vincent Cronin (En, 1924–2011) – Napoleon , Louis XVI and Marie Antoinette and Catherine the Great Douglas Day (US, 1932–2004) – Malcolm Lowry Thomas DiLorenzo (US, born 1954) – Abraham Lincoln Damon DiMarco (US, born 1971) – Roy Simmons Richard Ellmann (US, 1918–1987) – James Joyce , Oscar Wilde and W. B. Yeats Alberthiene Endah (Id, living) – Chrisye , Krisdayanti and Raam Punjabi Ivar Eskeland (Nw, 1927–2005) – decorated with the Order of the Falcon and winner of the Bastian Prize for his biographies of Gisle Straume and Snorri Sturluson Wayne Federman (US, born 1959) – Pete Maravich Elaine Feinstein (En, 1930–2019) – Marina Tsvetaeva , Pushkin , Ted Hughes Mary Fels (US, 1863–1953) – Joseph Fels Kitty Ferguson (US, born 1941) – Stephen Hawking William Fitzstephen (En, died 1190) – Thomas Becket Amanda Foreman (En/US, born 1968) – Georgiana Cavendish, Duchess of Devonshire Esther G. Frame (US, 1840–1920) – Esther G. Frame Antonia Fraser (En, born 1932) – Mary, Queen of Scots and Oliver Cromwell Russell Freedman (US, 1929–2018) – Abraham Lincoln Douglas Southall Freeman (US, 1886–1953) – Robert E. Lee and George Washington Leonie Frieda (Sw/En, born 1956) – Catherine de' Medici Jean Overton Fuller (En, 1915–2009) – Noor-un-nisa Inayat Khan , Percy Bysshe Shelley , Algernon Charles Swinburne and Sir Francis Bacon Elizabeth Gaskell (En, 1810–1865) – Charlotte Brontë Peter Gay (US, 1923–2015) – Sigmund Freud and W. A. Mozart Gary Giddins (US, born 1948) – Bing Crosby , Charlie Parker and Louis Armstrong Martin Gilbert (En, 1936–2015) Winston Churchill Annie Somers Gilchrist (US, 1841–1912)Josef Greiner (Au, c. 1886–1947) – Adolf Hitler Adrian Greenwood (En, 1973–2016) – Colin Campbell, 1st Baron Clyde Peter Guralnick (US, born 1943) – Elvis Presley and Sam Phillips Gamal Abdul Nasir Zakaria (ID, born 1965) – Mohammad Natsir
H–M
Seppo Heikinheimo (Fl, 1938–1997) – Aarre Merikanto , Oskar Merikanto and Martti Talvela Charles Higham (England/US, 1931–2012) – Errol Flynn , Howard Hughes and Katharine Hepburn Thomas Jefferson Hogg (En, 1792–1862) – Percy Bysshe Shelley Richard Holmes (England, born 1945) – Mary Shelley , Coleridge , The Age of Wonder Michael Holroyd (En, born 1935) – Lytton Strachey Imogen Holst (En, 1907–1984) – Gustav Holst Marilla Baker Ingalls (US, 1828–1902) – Mah PoWalter Isaacson (US, born 1952) – Benjamin Franklin , Steve Jobs and Henry Kissinger Edward Jablonski (US, 1922–2004) – George Gershwin and Irving Berlin Elizabeth Jenkins (En, 1905–2010) – Jane Austen , Henry Fielding , Lady Caroline Lamb Joseph Lister and Elizabeth I Samuel Johnson (En, 1709–1784) – Lives of the Most Eminent English Poets Ernest Jones (Wl, 1879–1958) – Sigmund Freud Kathleen Jones (EnAl, born 1946) – Katherine Mansfield Landon Jones (US, living) – William Clark Alicia Jurado (Arg, 1922–2011) – William Henry Hudson , Cunninghame Graham , Jorge Luis Borges Shakuntala Karandikar (In, 1931–2018) – Chandrashekhar Agashe Kitty Kelley (US, born 1942) – Frank Sinatra , Elizabeth Taylor and Nancy Reagan Jacqueline Kent (Al, born 1947) – Kenneth Cook , Beatrice Davis , Julia Gillard and Hephzibah Menuhin Harriette A. Keyser (US, 1841–1936) — Henry C. Potter Jennie Ellis Keysor (US, 1860–1945) - Raphael Marvin Kitman (US, 1929–2023) – George Washington and Bill O'Reilly Edward Klein (US, born 1937) – Hillary Clinton Randy Kryn (US, born 1949) — James Bevel
Robert Lacey (En, born 1944) – Elizabeth II , Princess Grace , Henry VIII , Henry Ford and Robert Devereux, 2nd Earl of Essex Jane Lane (En, 1905–1978) – Titus Oates Hermione Lee (En, born 1948) – Edith Wharton , Virginia Woolf Sidney Lee (En, 1856–1926) – Dictionary of National Biography , William Shakespeare and Queen Victoria J. Michael Lennon (US, born 1942) – Norman Mailer Santeri Levas (Fl, 1899–1987) – Clara & Robert Schumann , Jean Sibelius Barbara Levick (En, born 1932) – specialising in Roman emperors Gail Levin (US, born 1948) – Edward Hopper , Judy Chicago and Lee Krasner Roger Lewis (Wl, born 1960) – Anthony Burgess Martha D. Lincoln (US, 1838–1911) — John Wesley Powell Kenneth S. Lynn (US, 1923–2001) – Mark Twain , Charlie Chaplin and Ernest Hemingway Brenda Maddox (US/E, 1932–2019) – Elizabeth Taylor , D. H. Lawrence , Nora Joyce , W. B. Yeats and Rosalind Franklin Norman Mailer (US, 1923–2007) – Marilyn Monroe , Lee Harvey Oswald and Gary Gilmore Koryun (Am, 5th century) – Mesrop Mashtots William Manchester (US, 1922–2004) – Winston Churchill , Douglas MacArthur and John F. Kennedy Cristina Marcano (Ve, born 1960) – Hugo Chávez Bruce Marshall (Sc, 1899–1987) – Wing Commander F. F. E. Yeo-Thomas John Matteson (US, born 1961) – Amos Bronson Alcott , Louisa May Alcott and Margaret Fuller André Maurois (Fr, 1885–1967) – Percy Bysshe Shelley , Lord Byron , Benjamin Disraeli , Victor Hugo , Balzac and Sir Alexander Fleming David McCullough (US, 1933–2022) – Harry S. Truman , John Adams and Theodore Roosevelt Merle Miller (US, 1919–1986) – Harry S. Truman and Lyndon B. Johnson James McGrath Morris (US, born 1954) – Joseph Pulitzer , Charles Chapin , Ethel Payne , Ernest Hemingway , John Dos Passos Miyoshi Kiyotsura (Jp, 847–918) – Japanese scholar-statesmanIbn al-Qaisarani (Ab, 1056–1113) – medieval Arab biographer of previous medieval biographersSimon Sebag Montefiore (En, born 1965) – Grigory Potemkin and Joseph Stalin Thomas Moore (Ir, 1779–1852) – Richard Brinsley Sheridan , Lord Byron and Lord Edward FitzGerald Jeffrey Morgan (Ca, living) – Alice Cooper and The Stooges Ted Morgan (US, born 1932) – William S. Burroughs , W. Somerset Maugham and Franklin D. Roosevelt Andrew Morton (En, born 1953) – Princess Diana , Monica Lewinsky and Tom Cruise
N–Z
Ira Nadel (Ca, born 1943) – Leon Uris , David Mamet , Tom Stoppard and Leonard Cohen Alanna Nash (US, born 1950)Nakane Kōtei (Jp, 1839–1913)Philip Nel (US, born 1969) – Crockett Johnson and Ruth Krauss Cornelius Nepos (AR, 100–24 BC)Nizamuddin Asir Adrawi (IN, 1926–2021)Iris Origo (En, 1902–1988)James Parton (US, 1822–1891) – Horace Greeley , Aaron Burr , Andrew Jackson , Benjamin Franklin , Thomas Jefferson and Voltaire Hesketh Pearson (En, 1887–1964)F. David Peat (En, 1928–2017) – David Bohm Plutarch (AG, 46–127)H. F. M. Prescott (En, 1896–1972) – Mary I of England ("Bloody Mary")Arnold Rampersad (TT, born 1941) – Langston Hughes Piers Paul Read (En, born 1941) – Alec Guinness James Redpath (US, born En, 1833–1891) – John Brown (abolitionist) E. J. Richmond (US, 1825–1918) – Harriet Hosmer W. Andrew Robinson (En, born 1957) – Satyajit Ray and Rabindranath Tagore Romain Rolland (Fr, 1866–1944) – Beethoven , Michelangelo , Leo Tolstoy and Gandhi Henry Salt (En, 1851–1939) – Shelley , Richard Jefferies and Henry David Thoreau Carl Sandburg (US, 1878–1967) – Abraham Lincoln Stacy Schiff (US, born 1961) – United States; Véra Nabokov , Benjamin Franklin , Antoine de Saint-Exupéry , Cleopatra and the Witches of Salem Anton Schindler (Ge, 1795–1864) – Ludwig van Beethoven Anne Sebba (En, born 1951) – Wallis Simpson Lee Server (US, living) – Robert Mitchum and Ava Gardner Miranda Seymour (En, born 1948) – Annabella Milbanke and Ada Lovelace , Hellé Nice , Mary Shelley Kirit Shelat (In, born 1946) – IndiaDawn Langley Simmons (En, 1937–2000) – Princess Margaret , Margaret Rutherford and Jacqueline Kennedy Roy S. Simmonds (En, 1925–2000) – John Steinbeck , William March and Edward O'Brien Jean Edward Smith (US, 1932–2019) – Ulysses S. Grant , John Marshall and Lucius D. Clay Laura J. Snyder (US, born 1964) – Charles Babbage , John F.W. Herschel , William Whewell , Richard Jones , Johannes Vermeer , Antoni van Leeuwenhoek and Oliver Sacks Dava Sobel (US, born 1947) – John Harrison , Sister Maria Celeste , daughter of Galileo, Galileo Maynard Solomon (US, 1930–2020) – Beethoven , W. A. Mozart Leslie Stephen (En, 1832–1904) – Dictionary of National Biography , Samuel Johnson , Alexander Pope , Jonathan Swift George Eliot and Thomas Hobbes Jane Agnes Stewart (US, 1860–1944) — Frances Willard Irving Stone (US, 1903–1989)Lytton Strachey (En, 1880–1932) – eminent VictoriansMarshall Terrill (US, born 1963) – Steve McQueen , Elvis Presley , Johnny Cash , Billy Graham , Pete Maravich Bankole Timothy (SL, 1923–1994), Kwame Nkrumah Nick Tosches (US, 1949–2019) – Jerry Lee Lewis , Dean Martin and Sonny Liston Meriol Trevor (En, 1919–2000) – John Henry Newman , Philip Neri , Pope John XXIII , Thomas Arnold and James II of England Henri Troyat (Fr, 1911–2007) – Dostoevsky , Leo Tolstoy , Gogol , Catherine the Great , Peter the Great , Ivan the Terrible , Anton Chekhov , Ivan Turgenev , Maxim Gorky and Rasputin Jenny Uglow (En, born 1947) – Elizabeth Gaskell , William Hogarth , Thomas Bewick and the Lunar Society Rosa Kershaw Walker (US, 1840s–1909) – eminent AmericansBlanche Warre-Cornish (En, 1848–1922) – William Thackeray Alison Weir (En, born 1937) – Elizabeth I of England , Eleanor of Aquitane , Mary, Queen of Scots Sam Weller (US) – Ray Bradbury Theodore White (US, 1915–1986) – Lyndon B. Johnson and Richard Nixon Alice Willard (US, 1860–1936) – Bertha BaurA. N. Wilson (En, born 1950) – Sir Walter Scott , John Milton , Hilaire Belloc , Leo Tolstoy , C. S. Lewis , Jesus Iris Murdoch and John Betjeman Molly Worthen (US, born 1981) – Charles Hill , American diplomat and Yale professorMarguerite Young (US, 1908–1995) – Eugene V. Debs 
