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
A–G •
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 H–M •
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 Po •
Walter 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-statesman •
Ibn al-Qaisarani (Ab, 1056–1113) – medieval Arab biographer of previous medieval biographers •
Ingeborg 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 N–Z •
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 Americans •
Blanche 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 Baur •
Gertrude 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 ==Autobiographers==