Some notable authors of biographies

• Alfred Ainger, (1837-1904) - Charles Lamb
• Ellis Amburn, (born 1933), United States
• James Boswell, (1740-1795) - Samuel Johnson
• Max Brod, - Franz Kafka
• Vincent Brome, (1910-2004) - various writers
• Sir Samuel Egerton Brydges, (1762-1837) - English writers
• Andrea Cagan
• Virginia Spencer Carr (1929- ) - Carson McCullers, Paul Bowles and John Dos Passos
• Nirad C. Chaudhuri, (1897-1999) - Clive of India, Max Muller
• Vincent Cronin, born 1924 - Napoleon, Louis XVI and Marie Antoinette, Catherine the Great and others
• Douglas Day, (1932 - 2004) - Malcolm Lowry
• Thomas DiLorenzo - Abraham Lincoln
• Damon DiMarco - United States - Biographies include Roy Simmons, Tower Stories, and Heart of War
• Richard Ellmann - (1918-1987) - James Joyce, Oscar Wilde and William Butler Yeats
• Wayne Federman - NBA basketball legend Pete Maravich
• William Fitzstephen, (died 1190) - Thomas a Becket
• Amanda Foreman, (born 1968) - Georgiana: Duchess of Devonshire
• Antonia Fraser, (born 1932) - Mary, Queen of Scots, Oliver Cromwell
• Russell Freedman (born 1929) - Abraham Lincoln and others
• Douglas S. Freeman, (1886-1953) - Robert E. Lee, George Washington
• Leonie Frieda, UK - Catherine de' Medici
• Jean Overton Fuller - writer of verse and several biographies, including agents of S.O.E
• Gijs Van Hensbergen, - Antoni Gaudi
• Martin Gilbert, England - Winston Churchill
• Peter Guralnick, (born 1943) - music industry writer
• Charles Higham - Errol Flynn, Howard Hughes, Katharine Hepburn
• Michael Holroyd, (born 1935)
• Imogen Holst, - Gustav Holst
• Thomas Jefferson Hogg - Percy Bysshe Shelley
• Edward Jablonski, (1922-2004) - George Gershwin, Irving Berlin
• Kitty Kelley - Frank Sinatra, Elizabeth Taylor, Nancy Reagan
• Edward Klein, author of The Truth About Hillary
• Sidney Lee, (1856-1926) - Dictionary of National Biography, William Shakespeare and Queen Victoria
• Barbara Levick, (born 1932) - English; specialising in Roman emperors
• Roger Lewis - Anthony Burgess
• Brenda Maddox
• Norman Mailer - Marilyn Monroe, Lee Harvey Oswald, Gary Gilmore
• William Manchester, (1922-2004) - Winston Churchill, Douglas MacArthur, John F. Kennedy
• David McCullough - Harry Truman, John Adams, T. Roosevelt
• Grazyna Miller, (born 1957)
• Merle Miller, (1919-1986) - Harry S. Truman, Lyndon B. Johnson (U.S. Presidents)
• Simon Sebag Montefiore (1965- ), Potemkin, Stalin
• Ted Morgan - William Burroughs, Somerset Maugham, FDR
• Andrew Morton (1953 - )
• Alanna Nash, (born 1950), United States
• Cornelius Nepos, 100-24 BC), ancient Rome
• James Parton, (1822-1891) - Horace Greeley, Aaron Burr, Andrew Jackson, Benjamin Franklin, Thomas Jefferson, and Voltaire
• Hesketh Pearson
• Plutarch, (46-127), ancient Greece
• H. F. M. Prescott, (1896-1972), Mary I of England - 'Bloody Mary'
• Andrew Robinson, (born 1957) - Satyajit Ray and Rabindranath Tagore
• Romain Rolland, (1866-1944) - Tolstoy and Gandhi
• Henry Salt, (1851-1939) - English authority on Shelley, Richard Jefferies and Henry David Thoreau
• Carl Sandburg, (1878-1967) - Abraham Lincoln
• Lee Server - Robert Mitchum, Ava Gardner
• Kirit Shelat - India
• Roy S. Simmonds, (1925-2000) - John Steinbeck, William March and Edward O'Brien
• Jean Edward Smith, (born 1932) - Ulysses S. Grant, John Marshall, Lucius D. Clay
• Leslie Stephen, (1832-1904) - Dictionary of National Biography, Samuel Johnson, Alexander Pope, Jonathan Swift, George Eliot and Thomas Hobbes
• Irving Stone, (1903-1989)
• Lytton Strachey, (1880-1932) - English
• Marshall Terrill - many biographies including Steve McQueen, David Thompson, and Pete Maravich.
• Nick Tosches - Jerry Lee Lewis, Dean Martin, Sonny Liston
• Jenny Uglow - many, including Elizabeth Gaskell, William Hogarth, Thomas Bewick and the Lunar Society
• Alison Weir - "popular" history
• Theodore White - United States
• A. N. Wilson - England
• Molly Worthen, (born 1981) - United States - Charles Hill, American diplomat and Yale professor

Some notable autobiographers