Biographers
Countries of working life: Ab=Arabia, AG=Ancient Greece, Al=Australia, Alb= Albania, Am=Armenia, AR=Ancient Rome, Au=Austria, AH=Austria/Hungary, Ca=Canada, Eg=Egypt, En=England, Fl=Finland, Fr=France, Ge=Germany, Gr=Greece, Id=Indonesia, In=India, Ir=Ireland, Is=Israel, It=Italy, Jp=Japan, Nw=Norway, Ru=Russia, SA=South Africa, Sc=Scotland, SL=Sierra Leone, So=Somalia, Sp=Spain, Sw=Sweden, TT=Trinidad & Tobago, US=United States, Ve=Venezuela, Wl=Wales
Hermann Abert (Ge, 1871–1927) – Niccolò Jommelli , Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart and Robert Schumann Gino Agnese (It, 1936–2026) – Umberto Boccioni and Filippo Tommaso Marinetti Alfred Ainger (En, 1837–1904) – Charles Lamb Gëzim Alpion (Alb/En) – Mother Teresa Ellis Amburn (US, 1933–2018) – Warren Beatty , Buddy Holly , Janis Joplin , Jack Kerouac , Roy Orbison and Elizabeth Taylor Rudolph Angermüller (Ge, 1940–2021) – Antonio Salieri and Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart Núria Añó (Sp, born 1973) – Salka Viertel Marie Célestine Amélie d'Armaillé (Fr, 1830–1918) – Catherine de Bourbon , Élisabeth of France , Marie Leszczyńska , Marie Antoinette , Marie-Thérèse, Duchess of Angoulême , Septimanie d'Egmont , Désirée Clary Margaret Aston (En, 1932–2014) – Thomas Arundel Rosemary Ashton (Sc/En, born 1947) – George Eliot Aaron Badgley (Ca, living) – George Harrison and Ringo Starr Anne Baker (En, 1914–2025) – Florence Baker , Valentine Baker and Geoffrey Salmond Deborah Baker (US, living) – Allen Ginsberg and Laura Riding Jean-Claude Baker (Fr/US, 1943–2015) and Chris Chase (US, 1924–2013) – Josephine Baker David Baldwin (En, 1946– 2016) – Katherine Brandon, Duchess of Suffolk , Richard III of England , Elizabeth Woodville and Richard of Shrewsbury, Duke of York Lady Frances Balfour (En, 1858–1931) – Elsie Inglis and Lady Victoria Campbell Lois Banner (US, born 1939) – Ruth Benedict , Greta Garbo , Marilyn Monroe and Elizabeth Cady Stanton Angelica Bäumer (Au, 1932–2025) – Soshana Afroyim , Gustav Klimt and Erich Lessing Mary Benson (SA, 1919–2000) – Tshekedi Khama , Albert Luthuli and Nelson Mandela Mary Matilda Betham (En, 1776–1852) – Caroline of Brunswick 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 and Briton Rivière Evangeline Wilbour Blashfield (US, 1858–1918) – Aphra Behn , Charlotte Aïssé , Rosalba Carriera , Gerberga II, Abbess of Gandersheim and Hrotsvitha Lucie Boissonnas (Fr, 1839–1877) – Robert E. Lee Martin Bommas (Ge/Eg, born 1967) – Tutankhamun Charlotte Booth (En/Eg, born 1975) – Horemheb , Hypatia and Tutankhamun James Boswell (Sc, 1740–1795) – Samuel Johnson Peter Bourne (En, born 1939) – Jimmy Carter and Fidel Castro Catherine Drinker Bowen (US, 1897–1973) – Edward Coke , Benjamin Franklin and Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr. Paula Broadwell (US, born 1972) – David Petraeus Sarah Bradford (En, born 1938) – Cesare Borgia , Lucrezia Borgia , Diana, Princess of Wales , Elizabeth II , George VI , Grace Kelly , Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis and Sacheverell Sitwell David W. Blight (US, born 1949) – Frederick Douglass Max Brod (AH/Is, 1884–1968) – Franz Kafka Leslie Brody (US, born 1952) – Jessica Mitford Vincent Brome (En, 1910–2004) – Clement Attlee , Aneurin Bevan , Frank Harris and H. G. Wells Brigid Brophy (1929–1995) – Aubrey Beardsley , Ronald Firbank , Grigory Gagarin and Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart Andrea Cagan (US, living) – Diana Ross Thomas Carlyle (Sc, 1795–1881) – Frederick the Great and John Sterling Robert A. Caro (US, born 1935) – Robert Moses and Lyndon B. Johnson Humphrey Carpenter (En, 1946–2005) – W. H. Auden , Benjamin Britten , Spike Milligan , Ezra Pound , Robert Runcie , J. R. R. Tolkien and Evelyn Waugh Virginia Spencer Carr (US, 1929–2012) – Paul Bowles , Carson McCullers and John Dos Passos David C. Cassidy (US, born 1945) – Albert Einstein , Mileva Marić and J. Robert Oppenheimer Charles Castle (En, 1939–2013) – Noël Coward , Joan Crawford , Oliver Messel , Margaret, Duchess of Argyll , La Belle Otero and 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) – Alexander Hamilton Pasquale Chessa (It, born 1947) – Benito Mussolini Na Chokkan (In, born 1977) – Sachin Tendulkar , Dhirubhai Ambani , Charlie Chaplin , Rahul Dravid , Azim Premji , Lakshmi Mittal , Walt Disney etc. in Tamil Heather Clark (US, living) – Ted Hughes and Sylvia Plath John Henrik Clarke (US, 1915–1998) – Ahmad Baba al-Timbukti , Marcus Garvey and Malcolm X Claude Clegg (US, living) – Elijah Muhammad Vincent Cronin (En, 1924–2011) – Napoleon , Louis XVI , Marie Antoinette and Catherine the Great Anne de Courcy (En, born 1927) – Antony Armstrong-Jones, 1st Earl of Snowdon , Margot Asquith , Coco Chanel , Nancy Cunard , Irene Curzon, 2nd Baroness Ravensdale , Lady Alexandra Metcalfe , Lady Cynthia Mosley , Diana Mosley and Edith Vane-Tempest-Stewart, Marchioness of Londonderry Maud Cruttwell (En, 1859 – 1939) – Donatello , Andrea Mantegna and Luca Signorelli
Douglas Day (US, 1932–2004) – Malcolm Lowry Mahasweta Devi (In, 1926–2016) – Rani of Jhansi Thomas DiLorenzo (US, born 1954) – Abraham Lincoln Damon DiMarco (US, born 1971) – Roy Simmons Rebecca Donner (US) – Mildred Harnack Helen Dukas (Ge, 1896–1982) – Albert Einstein Erica Armstrong Dunbar (US) – Harriet Tubman Jonathan Eig (US, 1964) – Muhammad Ali , Martin Luther King Jr. and Jackie Robinson Richard Ellmann (US, 1918–1987) – James Joyce , Oscar Wilde and W. B. Yeats Marthe Emmanuel (France, 1901–1997) – Jean-Baptiste Charcot and Robert Falcon Scott Hélène Carrère d'Encausse (Fr, 1929–2023) – Vladimir Lenin and Alexandra Kollontai Alberthiene Endah (Id, living) – Chrisye , Krisdayanti and Raam Punjabi Ivar Eskeland (Nw, 1927–2005) – Gisle Straume and Snorri Sturluson Wayne Federman (US, born 1959) – Pete Maravich Elaine Feinstein (En, 1930–2019) – Marina Tsvetaeva , Alexander Pushkin and Ted Hughes Mary Fels (US, 1863–1953) – Joseph Fels Kitty Ferguson (US, born 1941) – Stephen Hawking William Fitzstephen (En, died 1190) – Thomas Becket Sarah Foot (En, born 1961) – Æthelstan 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) – Marie Antoinette , Oliver Cromwell , Caroline Lamb , Caroline Norton and Mary, Queen of Scots 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 Gabriele Fritsch-Vivié (Gr, born 1968) – Kurt Singer and Mary Wigman Paul Frölich (Ge, 1884–1953) – Rosa Luxemburg Jean Overton Fuller (En, 1915–2009) – Sir Francis Bacon , Noor-un-nisa Inayat Khan , Percy Bysshe Shelley and Algernon Charles Swinburne Elizabeth Gaskell (En, 1810–1865) – Charlotte Brontë Peter Gay (US, 1923–2015) – Sigmund Freud and Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart Gary Giddins (US, born 1948) – Louis Armstrong , Bing Crosby and Charlie Parker Martin Gilbert (En, 1936–2015) – Winston Churchill Annie Somers Gilchrist (US, 1841–1912) – Some representative women of Tennessee Marcia Ann Gillespie (US, born 1944) – Maya Angelou Josef Greiner (Au, c. 1886–1947) – Adolf Hitler Adrian Greenwood (En, 1973–2016) – Colin Campbell, 1st Baron Clyde Germaine Greer (En, born 1939) – Anne Hathaway Teresa, Contessa Guiccioli (It, 1800–1873) – Lord Byron Peter Guralnick (US, born 1943) – Elvis Presley and Sam Phillips Ramachandra Guha (In, born 1958) – Verrier Elwin and Mahatma Gandhi
Syeda Hameed (In, born 1943) – Khwaja Ahmad Abbas , Maulana Azad and Zakir Husain Jane Sherron De Hart (US, born 1936) – Ruth Bader Ginsburg James Haskins (US) – Lena Horne , Scott Joplin , Rosa Parks , Pelé , Bill Robinson , Stevie Wonder and James Van Der Zee Zahi Hawass (Eg, born 1947) – Cleopatra , Ramesses II and Tutankhamun Seppo Heikinheimo (Fl, 1938–1997) – Aarre Merikanto , Oskar Merikanto and Martti Talvela Carolyn Gold Heilbrun (US, 1926–2003) – Lady Ottoline Morrell and Gloria Steinem Robert Hemenway (US, 1941–2015) – Zora Neale Hurston Hayden Herrera (US, born 1940) – Frida Kahlo Charles Higham (En/US, 1931–2012) – Errol Flynn , Howard Hughes and Katharine Hepburn Laura Hillenbrand (US, born 1967) – Louis Zamperini Thomas Jefferson Hogg (En, 1792–1862) – Percy Bysshe Shelley Richard Holmes (En, born 1945) – Mary Shelley and Samuel Taylor Coleridge Michael Holroyd (En, born 1935) – Lytton Strachey Imogen Holst (En, 1907–1984) – Gustav Holst Erik Hornung (Ge/Eg, 1933–2022) – Akhenaten and Seti I Louise Seymour Houghton (1838–1920) – David Livingstone 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 (En/Al, born 1946) – Katherine Mansfield Landon Jones (US, living) – William Clark Alicia Jurado (Arg, 1922–2011) – William Henry Hudson , Cunninghame Graham , Jorge Luis Borges Yvonne Kapp (En, 1903–1999) – Eleanor Marx Shakuntala Karandikar (In, 1931–2018) – Chandrashekhar Agashe Lutis Abd Al Karim (Eg) – Farida of Egypt , Ihsan Abdel Quddous and Mohammed Abdel Wahab 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 Vera Krasovskaya (Ru, 1915–1999) – Vakhtang Chabukiani , Nikita Dolgushin , Natalia Dudinskaya , Michel Fokine , Irina Kolpakova , Vaslav Nijinsky and Anna Pavlova Brooke Kroeger (US, living) – Nellie Bly and Fannie Hurst 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 Joseph P. Lash (US, 1909–1987) – Helen Keller and Eleanor Roosevelt Linda Lear (US, born 1940) – Beatrix Potter David Leavitt (US, born 1961) – Alan Turing 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 Gerda Lerner (US, 1920–2013) – Angelina Grimké and Sarah Moore Grimké Santeri Levas (Fl, 1899–1987) – Clara & Robert Schumann , Jean Sibelius Barbara Levick (En, 1931–2023) – 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 Emil Ludwig (Ge, 1881–1948) – Otto von Bismarck , Johann Wolfgang von Goethe , William Lyon Mackenzie King , Napoleon and Wilhelm II 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 Georgina Masson (1912–1980) – Frederick II, Holy Roman Emperor and Christina, Queen of Sweden John Matteson (US, born 1961) – Amos Bronson Alcott , Louisa May Alcott and Margaret Fuller Rosaline Masson (En, 1867–1949) – William Edmondstoune Aytoun , Robert Pollok , Robert Louis Stevenson and William Wordsworth André Maurois (Fr, 1885–1967) – Percy Bysshe Shelley , Lord Byron , Benjamin Disraeli , Victor Hugo , Balzac and Sir Alexander Fleming Dorothy Moulton Mayer (En, 1886–1974) – Marie Antoinette , Angelica Kauffman , Louise of Savoy and Louis Spohr David McCullough (US, 1933–2022) – Harry S. Truman , John Adams and Theodore Roosevelt Jimmy McDonough (US, born 1959) – Neil Young , Andy Milligan , Russ Meyer , Tammy Wynette Martin Meredith (En, born 1942) – Bram Fischer , Nelson Mandela and Robert Mugabe Marguerite Merington (US, 1857–1951) – Edwin Booth and George Armstrong Custer 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 biographersIngeborg Møller (Nw, 1878–1964) – Henrik Steffens Simon Sebag Montefiore (En, born 1965) – Catherine the Great , 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, 1932–2023) – William S. Burroughs , W. Somerset Maugham and Franklin D. Roosevelt Muriel Earhart Morrissey (US, 1899–1998) – Amelia Earhart Andrew Morton (En, born 1953) – Princess Diana , Monica Lewinsky and Tom Cruise Malcolm Muggeridge (En, 1903–1990) – Samuel Butler , Mother Teresa and Sydney Smith
Ira Nadel (Ca, born 1943) – Leon Uris , David Mamet , Tom Stoppard and Leonard Cohen Nakane Kōtei (Jp, 1839–1913)Alanna Nash (US, born 1950) – Colonel Tom Parker , Dolly Parton , Elvis Presley and Jessica Savitch Hoda Gamal Abdel Nasser (Eg, born 1944) – Gamal Abdel Nasser Philip Nel (US, born 1969) – Crockett Johnson and Ruth Krauss Cornelius Nepos (AR, 100–24 BC)Nizamuddin Asir Adrawi (IN, 1926–2021)Vivien Noakes (En, 1937–2011) – Edward Lear Elizabeth Norton (En) – Ælfthryth , Margaret Beaufort , Elizabeth Blount , Anne Boleyn , Anne of Cleves , Elizabeth I , Catherine Parr and Jane Seymour Sergei Sergeyevich Oldenburg (Ru, 1888–1940) – Tsar Nicholas II Iris Origo (En, 1902–1988) – Lauro de Bosis , Allegra Byron , Francesco Datini , Ruth Draper , Teresa, Contessa Guiccioli , Giacomo Leopardi , Cola di Rienzo , Gaetano Salvemini , Bernardino of Siena and Ignazio Silone James Parton (US, 1822–1891) – Horace Greeley , Aaron Burr , Andrew Jackson , Benjamin Franklin , Thomas Jefferson and Voltaire Hesketh Pearson (En, 1887–1964) – Charles Dickens , Benjamin Disraeli , Charles II of England , William Hazlitt , Henry IV of France , Henry Labouchère , Anna Seward , James McNeill Whistler and Oscar Wilde F. David Peat (En, 1928–2017) – David Bohm Elisabetta Piqué (It) – Pope Francis Plutarch (AG, 46–127)Peter Popham (En, born 1950) – Aung San Suu Kyi H. F. M. Prescott (En, 1896–1972) – Mary I of England Zinaida Pronchenko (Ru, born 1981) – Alain Delon and Leonardo DiCaprio David Pryce-Jones (En, 1936–2025) – Cyril Connolly , Unity Mitford and Evelyn Waugh June Purvis (En) – Emmeline Pankhurst Arnold Rampersad (TT, born 1941) – Langston Hughes Helen Rappaport (En, born 1947) – Louis Daguerre , Vladimir Lenin , Sarah Rachel Russell , Mary Seacole and Henry Fox Talbot 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 Fern Riddell (En, born 1986) – Kitty Marion and Queen Victoria Laura Toti Rigatelli (It, 1941–2023) – Évariste Galois W. Andrew Robinson (En, born 1957) – Satyajit Ray and Rabindranath Tagore Noëlle Roger (Fr, 1874–1953) – Henry Dunant , Jean-Jacques Rousseau and Germaine de Staël Romain Rolland (Fr, 1866–1944) – Beethoven , Michelangelo , Leo Tolstoy and Gandhi Toni Rothmund (Gr, 1877–1956) – Franz Mesmer Kate Mason Rowland (US, 1840–1998) – George Mason
Rafael Sabatini (It/En, 1875–1950) – Cesare Borgia and Tomás de Torquemada Henry Salt (En, 1851–1939) – Shelley , Richard Jefferies and Henry David Thoreau Anthony Sampson (En/SA, 1926–2004) – Nelson Mandela Carl Sandburg (US, 1878–1967) – Abraham Lincoln Anne Sayre (US, 1923–1916) – Rosalind Franklin 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 Nachman Seltzer (Is, born 1976) – David Lee Server (US, living) – Robert Mitchum and Ava Gardner Miranda Seymour (En, born 1948) – Ada Lovelace , Annabella Milbanke , Hellé Nice and Mary Shelley David Shub (Ru, 1887–1973) – Vladimir Lenin and Joseph Stalin Dawn 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 Constance Babington Smith (En, 1912–2000) – Margery Blackie , Amy Johnson , Rose Macaulay , John Masefield and Julia Namier Jean Edward Smith (US, 1932–2019) – Ulysses S. Grant , John Marshall and Lucius D. Clay Rosita Sokou (Gr, 1923–2021) – Mario Frangoulis 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) – Maria Celeste (daughter of Galileo ), Marie Curie and John Harrison Maynard Solomon (US, 1930–2020) – Ludwig van Beethoven and Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart Jonathan Sperber (US, born 1952) – Karl Marx David Starkey (En, born 1945) – Elizabeth I and Henry VIII 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 Jeffrey C. Stewart (US, born 195o) – Alain LeRoy Locke Irving Stone (US, 1903–1989) – Clarence Darrow and Earl Warren Lytton Strachey (En, 1880–1932) – Thomas Arnold , Robert Dudley, 1st Earl of Leicester , Elizabeth I , Charles George Gordon , Henry Edward Manning , Florence Nightingale and Queen Victoria Abdulla Tafa (Alb, 1947–2015) – Ibrahim Kodra and Mustafa Krantja Marshall Terrill (US, born 1963) – Steve McQueen , Elvis Presley , Johnny Cash , Billy Graham and Pete Maravich Annie Thayyil (In, 1918–1993) – Joan of Arc and Indira Gandhi Ann Thwaite (En, born 1932) – Frances Hodgson Burnett , Edmund Gosse , Philip Henry Gosse , A. A. Milne and Emily, Lady Tennyson Judith Tick (US, born 1943) – Ella Fitzgerald and Ruth Crawford Seeger Mary Wilder Tileston (1843–1934) – Mary Wilder White, Mary Wilder Foote and Amelia Peabody Tileston Bankole Timothy (SL, 1923–1994) – Kwame Nkrumah Claire Tomalin (En, born 1933) – Jane Austen , Charles Dickens , Thomas Hardy , Dorothea Jordan , Katherine Mansfield , Samuel Pepys , Percy Bysshe Shelley , Ellen Ternan , H. G. Wells and Mary Wollstonecraft 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 Clara Tschudi (Nw, 1856–1945) – Marie Antoinette , Empress Elisabeth of Austria , Maria Sophie of Bavaria , Ludwig II of Bavaria , Letizia Bonaparte , Camilla Collett , Gertrude Guillaume-Schack , Eugénie de Montijo , Lina Morgenstern and Augusta of Saxe-Weimar-Eisenach 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 Kathryn Warner (En) – Edward II , Hugh Despenser the Younger , Isabella of France and Richard II of England Lady Rose Weigall (En,1834–1921) – Princess Charlotte of Wales Alison Weir (En, born 1937) – Anne Boleyn , Mary Boleyn , Elizabeth I of England , Eleanor of Aquitane , Isabella of France , Margaret Douglas, Countess of Lennox , Mary, Queen of Scots , Katherine Swynford and Elizabeth of York Sam Weller (US) – Ray Bradbury Theodore White (US, 1915–1986) – Lyndon B. Johnson and Richard Nixon Sibyl Wilbur (US, 1871–1946) – Mary Baker Eddy Alice Willard (US, 1860–1936) – Bertha BaurGertrude Marvin Williams (US, 1884–1974) – Annie Besant and Helena Blavatsky A. N. Wilson (En, born 1950) – Sir Walter Scott , John Milton , Hilaire Belloc , Leo Tolstoy , C. S. Lewis , Jesus Iris Murdoch and John Betjeman Barbara Winslow (US) – Shirley Chisholm and Sylvia Pankhurst Cecil Woodham-Smith (En, 1896–1977) – Florence Nightingale and Queen Victoria Molly Worthen (US, born 1981) – Charles Hill Marguerite Young (US, 1908–1995) – Eugene V. Debs Elisabeth Young-Bruehl (US, 1946–2011) – Hannah Arendt and Anna Freud Stefan Zweig (Au, 1881–1942) – Marie Antoinette , Honoré de Balzac , Charles Dickens , Fyodor Dostoevsky , Mary Baker Eddy , Joseph Fouché , Sigmund Freud , Ferdinand Magellan , Friedrich Nietzsche , Romain Rolland and Mary, Queen of Scots
