AUTHORS
Biographers with three or more books in our collection have expanded entries.
A.N.Wilson. Biography of Charles Dickens. 2020.
Adam Hart. Biography of his great grandfather. 2025.
Adam Sisman. Biography of John Le Carre. 2023.
Adam Sisman. Biography of Asa Briggs. 2025.
Adrian Clark & Richard Calvocoressi. Biography of Douglas Cooper. 2025.
Alan Bennett. Biography of his parents. 2009.
Alan Cumming. Biography of his family. 2014.
Alec Nevala-Lee. Biography of Buckminster Fuller. 2022.
Alex Christofi. Biography of Dostoevsky. 2022.
Alex Renton. Biography of his slave owning ancestors. 2021.
Alexandra Harris. Biography of Virginia Woolf. 2025.
Alexandra Popoff. Biograpahy of Valery Grossman. 2019.
Alexandra Popoff. Biography of Ayn Rand. 2025.
Amy Odell. Biography of Gwyneth Paltrow. 2025.
Ananyo Bhattacharya. Biography of John von Neumann. 2021.
Andrea Elliott. Biography of Dasani Coates. 2013.
Andrea Wulf. Biography of Alexander von Humboldt. 2015.
Andrew Murphy. Biography of William Penn. 2018.
Andrew Roberts (born 1963) is a historian and journalist, appointed to the House of Lords by Boris Johnson. Roberts read history at Cambridge, where the chaired the Cambridge University Conservative Association. He published his first book, on the politician Lord Halifax, in 1991.
Andrew Roberts. Biography of Napoleon Bonaparte. 2015.
Andrew Roberts. Biography of Winston Churchill. 2018.
Andrew Roberts. Biography of George III. 2023.
Ann Powers. Biography of Joni Mitchell. 2024.
Ann Schmiesing. Biography of the brothers Grimm. 2025.
Anne Sebba. Biography of Ethel Rosenberg. 2021.
Anne Wroe. A biographer’s autobiography. 2023.
Anupreeta Das. Biography of Bill Gates. 2024.
Anna Arutunyan & Mark Galeotti. Biography of Yevgeny Prigozhin. 2024.
Azadeh Moaveni. Biography of the women of ISIS. 2019.
Bart van Es. Biography of an ancestor. 2018.
Ben Macintyre. Biography of Ursula Kuczynski. 2020.
Benjamin Moser. Biography of Susan Sontag. 2019.
Beverly Gage. Biography of Edgar Hoover. 2023.
Bob Woodward (born 1943) is an American investigative journalist, who worked for the Washington Post, and has published 21 books on US politics. He achieved fame in 1972 when, with Carl Bernstein, he uncovered the Watergate scandal. Woodward received his BA at Yale University.
Bob Woodward. Biography of Donald Trump, Vol.1, Fear. 2018.
Bob Woodward. Biography of Donald Trump, Vol.2, Rage. 2020.
Bob Woodward. Biography of Donald Trump, Vol.3, Peril. 2021.
Brad Gooch. Biography of Keith Haring. 2024.
Brad Stone. Biography of Jeff Bezos, Vol. 1, The Everything Store. 2014.
Brad Stone. Biography of Jeff Bezos, Vol.2, Amazon Unbound. 2021.
Carol Shields. Biography of Jane Austen. 2021.
Caroline Fraser. Biography of Laura Ingalls Wilder. 2018.
Casey Cep. Biography of Harper Lee. 2019.
Catherine Ince. Biography of Charlees & Ray Eames. 2015.
Charles Moore. Biography of Margaret Thatcher, Vol.1. 2013.
Charles Moore. Biography of Margaret Thatcher, Vol.2. 2016.
Chen Jian. Biography of Zhou Enlai. 2024.
Cheryl Misak. Biography of Frank Ramsey. 2020.
Claire Tomalin. Biography of H.G.Wells. 2021.
Clare Mulley. Biography of Elzbiea Zawacka. 2024.
Clive Aslet. Biography of Edwin Lutyens. 2024.
Craig Brown was born in 1957 and was educated at Eton and the University of Bristol. He has written for the Spectator, the Literary Review, and the Evening Stanard. He was also a parliamentary sketch writer for the Times, and wrote a restaurant column for the Sunday Telegraph.
Craig Brown. Biograpy of Priccess Margaret. 2017.
Craig Brown. Biography of the Beatles. 2020.
Craig Brown. Biography of Queen Elizabeth II. 2024.
Damian Collins. Biography of Lloyd George. 2024.
Dan Jones. Biography of Henry V. 2024.
Daniel Finkelstein. Biography of his parents. 2014.
Dava Sobel. Biography of John Harrison. 1995.
Dava Sobel. Biography of Marie Curie. 2024.
David Baddiel. Biography of his parents. 2024.
David Blight. Biography of Frderick Douglass. 2018.
David Cannadine. Biography of Elizabth II. 2025.
David Lough. Biography of Winston Churchill. 2015.
David Taylor. Biography of George Orwell. 2023.
Dean Jobb. Biography of Arthur Barry. 2024.
Desmond Morris. Biography of the Surrealists. 2018.
Doireann ni Ghriofa. Biography of a poet. 2020.
Doris Kearns Goodwin. Biography of Abraham Lincoln. 2005.
Douglas Smith. Biography of Rasputin. 2017.
Duncan Clark. Biography of Jack Ma. 2018.
Edmund Gordon. Biography of Angela Carter. 2016.
Edward Luce. Biography of Zbigniew Brzezinski. 2025.
Felicity Henderson. Biography of Robert Hooke. 2024.
Felipe Fernandez-Armesto. Biography of Ferdinand Magellan. 2022.
Ferdinand Mount. Biography of his aunt Munca. 2020.
Frances Wilson (born 1964) read English at Oxford University, and took a DPhil on Henry James and Freud at Sussex University. She taught English Literature at Reading University, then became a full time writer. Her book reviews appear in the Times Literary Supplement.
Frances Wilson. Biography of Bruce Ismay. 2012.
F.rances Wilson. Biography of D.H.Lawrence. 2021.
Frances Wilson. Biography of Muriel Spark. 2025.
Francescca Wade. Biography of Gertrude Stein. 2025.
Frank Costigliola. Biography of George Kennan. 2023.
Fredrik Logevall. Biography of John Kennedy, Vol.1. 2020.
George Szirtes. Biography of his mother. 2019.
Gordon Corera. Biography of Vasili Mitrokhin. 2025.
Graham Farmelo. Biography of Paul Dirac. 2009.
Graham Taylor. Biography of Ada Salter. 2015.
Graham Tomlin. Biography of Blaise Pascal. 2025.
Gregory Jusdanis & Peter Jeffreys. Biography of Constantine Cavafy. 2025.
Hadley Freeman. Biography of her family. 2020.
Heather Clark. Biography of Sylvia Plath. 2021.
Helen Castor. Biography of Joan of Arc. 2014.
Helen Castor. Biography of Elizabeth I. 2019.
Helen Rappaport. Biography of Mary Seacole. 2023.
Hermione Lee. Biography of Penelope Fitzgerald. 2014.
Hisham Matar. Biography of his father. 2016.
Hugh Small. Biography of Florence Nightingale 2017.
Ian Collins. Biography of Ronald Blythe. 2024.
Ian Kershaw. Biography of Adolf Hitler. 2008.
Ian Penman. Biography of Rainer Werner Fassbinder. 2023.
Ian Penman. Biography of Erik Satie. 2025.
Ilyon Woo. Biography of Ellen and William Craft. 2023.
Jack Fairweather. Biography of Witold Pilecki. 2019.
Jackie Wullschlager. Biography of Claude Monet. 2023.
Jad Adams. Biography of Tony Benn. 2025.
Jane Ridley. Biography of Edward VII. 2012.
Jane Smiley. Biography of Charles Dickens.. 2021.
Janis Tomlinson. Biography of Francisco Goya. 2020.
Jeffrey Stewart. Biography of Alain Locke. 2018.
Jennifer Burns. Biography of Milton Friedman. 2023.
Jennifer Homans. Biography of George Balanchine. 2022.
John Bew. Biography of Clement Attlee. 2016.
John Campbell (born 1947) is a prolific biographer of twentieth century British politicians. He was educated at Charterhouse and the University of Edinburgh, where he obtained his PhD in politics. His biography of Roy Jenkins won the 2014 Political Book Awards Political Biography of the Year.
John Campbell. Biography of Margaret Thatcher. 2012.
John Campbell. Biography of F.E.Smith. 2013.
John Campbell. Biography of Roy Jenkins. 2014.
John Campbell. Biography of Richard Haldane. 2022.
John Carreyrou. Biography of Elizabeth Holmes. 2023.
John Kiszely. Biography of Pug Ismay. 2024.
John Preston. Biography of Robert Maxwell. 2020.
John Sweeney. Biography of Alexei Navalny. 2024.
John Tresch. Biography of Edgar Allen Poe. 2021.
Jonathan Bate. Biography of William Shakespeare. 2009.
Jonathan Bate. Biography of Ted Hughes. 2016.
Jonathan Eig. Biography of Martin Luther King. 2023.
Jonathan Freedland. Biography of Rudolf Vrbo. 2022.
Jonathan Israel. Biography of Baruch Spinoza. 2023.
Jonathan Phillips. Biography of Sultan Saladin. 2019.
Julia Lovell. Biography of Mao Tse Tung. 2019.
Julian Jackson. Biography of Charles de Gaulle. 2018.
Julian Jackson. Biography of Marshal Petain. 2023.
Kai Bird. Biography of Robert Oppenheimer. 2005.
Karen Phillipps. Biography of George Carman. 2024.
Karolina Watroba. Biography of Franz Kafka. 2024.
Katherine Rundell. Biography of John Donne. 2023.
Keggie Carew. Biography of her father. 2016.
Laura Cumming. Biography of Velazquez. 2016.
Laura Cumming. Biography of her mother. 2019.
Laurence Bergreen. Biography of Jules Verne. 2025.
Lea Ypi. Biography of her parents. 2022.
Linda Leavall. Biography of Marianne Moore. 2014.
Lin Rose Clark. Biography of Robert Hilliard. 2025.
Lindsey Hilsum. Biography of Marie Colvin. 2018.
Lisa Jardine. Biography of Robert Hooke. 2004.
Lorraine Byrne Bodley. Biography of Franz Schubert. 2023.
Lucy Hughes-Hallett. Biography of the Duke of Buckingham. 2024.
Lucy Hughes-Hallett. Biography of Gabriele D’Annunzio. 2013.
Margaret. Renn. Biography of Paul Foot. 2024.
Mafrie Arana. Biography of Simon Bolivar. 2014.
Mark Clifford. Biography of Jimmy Lai. 2024.
Mark Harris. Biography of Mike Nichols. 2021.
Martyn Bond. Biography of Richard von Coudenhove-Kalergi. 2021.
Matthew Sturgis. Biography of Oscar Wilde. 2018.
Maurice Samuels. Biography of Alfred Dreyfus. 2024.
Meredith Hooper. Biography of six Antarctic explorers. 2011.
Michael Crick. Biography of Nigel Farage. 2022.
Michael Frayn. Biography of his father. 2010.
Michael Haag. Biography of Lawrence Durrell. 2025.
Michael Lewis. Biography of Sam Bankman-Fried. 2023.
Michael Sheridan. Biography of Xi Jinping. 2024.
Michael Wolff (born 1953), the son of an advertising professional, graduated from Columbia University. While at university he worked for the New York Times as a copy boy. He then developed a career as a magazine journalist, including six years writing a column for New York magazine.
Michael Wolff. Biography of Donald Trump, Vol.1. 2018.
Michael Wolff. Biography of Donald Trump, Vol.2. 2020.
Michael Wolff. Biography of Donald Trump, Vol.3. 2022.
Michael Wolff. Biography of Donald Trump, Vol.4. 2025.
Michael Wolff. Biography of Rupert Murdoch. 2023.
Michel Paradis. Biography of Dwight Eisenhower. 2024.
Mishal Husain. Biography of her family. 2024.
Niall Ferguson. Biography of Siegmund Warburg. 2010.
Nicholas Jenkins. Biography of W.H.Auden. 2024.
Nicholas Fox Weber. Biography of Piet Mondrian. 2024.
Nicholas Shakespeare. Biography of Ian Fleming. 2023.
Nick Thomas-Symonds. Biography of Harold Wilson. 2022.
Owen Walker. Biography of Neil Woodford. 2021.
Patrick Radden Keefe. Biography of the Sackler family. 2017.
Paul Beaver. Biography of Eric Brown. 2023.
Paul Hendrickson. Biography of Frank Lloyd Wright. 2020.
Peter Caddick-Adams. Biography of Winston Churchill. 2024.
Philip Short. Biography of Vladimir Putin. 2022.
Philip Steadman. Biography of Johannes Vermeer. 2002.
Philippe Sands. Biography of Otto von Wachter. 2021.
Philippe Sands. Biography of is family. 2022.
Piers Brendon. Biography of Winston Churchill. 2018.
Piers Brendon. Biography of Edward VIII. 2018.
Rebecca Stott. Biography of her father. 2017.
Reeves Wiederman. Biography of Adam Neumann. 2021.
Richard Rhodes. Biography of Robert Oppenheimer. 1986.
Richard Stengel. Biography of Nelson Mandela. 1995.
Robert Caro (born 1935) has won two Pulitzer Prizes for Biography. He became a writer from a young age. At Princeton his thesis ‘Heading Out: A Study of the Development of Ernest Hemingway Thought’ ran to 235 pages and caused the University to introduce a length limit for theses.
Robert Caro. Biography of Robert Moses. 1974.
Robert Caro. Biography of Lyndon Johnson, Vol.1. 1982.
Robert Caro. Biography of Lyndon Johnson, Vol.2. 1990.
Robert Caro. Biography of Lyndon Johnson, Vol.3. 2002.
Robert Caro. Biography of Lyndon Johnson, Vol.4. 2012.
Robert Colls. Biography of George Orwell. 2013.
Robert Dallek. Biography of Franklin Roosevelt. 2017.
Robert Dallek. Biography of John Kennedy. 2003.
Robert Hardman. Biography of Charles III. 2024.
Robert Massie. Biography of Caherine the Great. 2011.
Robert Service. Biography of Joseph Stalin. 2004.
Roger Highfield. Biography of Stephen Hawking. 2024.
Roger Lewis. Biography of Peter Sellers. 1995.
Roger Lewis. Biography of Richard Burton and Elizabeth Taylor. 2023.
Roland Philipps. Biography of Donald Maclean. 2019
Roland Philipps. Biography of Roger Casement. 2024.
The subjects of Ron Chernow’s biographies include John D. Rockefeller, Alexander Haimilton and George Washington. He has also written accounts of the Morgan and Warburg banking families. He obtained degrees from Yale University and from Pembroke College, Cambridge.
Ron Chernow. Biography of John Rockefeller. 1998.
Ron Chernow. Biography of Alexander Hamilton. 2004.
Ron Chernow. Biography of Ulysses Grant. 2018.
Ron Chernow. Biography of Mark Twain. 2025.
Rosemary Hill. Biography of Augustus Pugin. 2008.
Rosemary Sullivan. Biography of Svetlana Alliluyeva. 2015.
Roy Jenkins was born in 1920, the son of a coal miner. He became a Labour MP, and In 1965 became Home Secretary. He initiated sweeping social reforms, This included the liberalisation of divorce and abortion law, the decriminalisation of homosexuality, and the abolition of capital punishment.
Roy Jenkins. Biography of William Gladstone. 1997.
Roy Jenkins. Biography of Winston Churchill. 2001.
Roy Jenkins. Biography of Franklin Roosevelt. 2003.
Russ Buettner & Susan Craig. Biography of Donald Trump. 2024.
Ruth Brandon started her career at the BBC on the Tonight current affairs programme. She then became an author, writing numerous non-fiction and fiction books. Her biographies include magician Henry Houdini, chef Alexis Soyer, and sewing machine entrepreneur Isaac Singer.
Ruth Brandon. Biography of Alexis Soyer. 2005.
Ruth Brandon. Biography of Marcel Duchamp. 2022.
Ruth Brandon. Biographies of the wrongly imprisoned. 2024.
Ruth Franklin. Biography of Shirley Jackson. 2016.
Sam Tannenhaus. Biography of William Buckley. 2025.
Scott Anderson. Biography of the Shah of Iran. 2025.
Sebastian Mallaby. Biography of Alan Greenspan. 2016.
Simon Kuper. Biography of Oxford Tories. 2022.
Simon Morrison. Biography of Tchaikovsky. 2024.
Sonia Purnell. Biography of Virginia Hall. 2019.
Sonia Purnell. Biography of Pamela Harriman. 2024.
Stefan Kanfer. Biography of Groucho Marx. 2000.
Stephen Alford. Biography of Lord Burghley. 2011.
Stephen Alford. Biography of Robert Cecil. 2024.
Steve Richards. Biographies of Prime Ministers. 2020.
Sudhir Hazareeesingh. Biography of Toussant Louverture. 2020.
Sue Prideaux. Biography of Friedrich Nietzsche. 2018.
Sue Prideaux. Biography of Paul Gaugin. 2024.
Thomas Penn. Biography of Henry VII. 2011.
Tom Baldwin. Biography of Keir Starmer. 2024.
Tom Wolfe. Biography of the Mercury Astronauts. 1979.
Tristram Hunt. Biography of Josiah Wedgwood. 2021.
Walter Isaacson is a journalist, editor, television executive, and author. He attended Harvard, and was a Rhodes Scholar at Oxford University. He was during his career the CEO of the CNN television network, and the editor of Time magazine. He was also CEO of the the Aspen Institute.
Walter Isaacson. Biography of Benjamin Franklin. 2003.
Walter Isaacson. Biography of Albert Einstein. 2007.
Walter Isaacson. Biography of Steve Jobs. 2011.
Walter Isaacson. Biography of Elon Musk. 2023.
Will Elswoth-Jones. Biography of Banksy. 2021.
William Storey. Biography of Cecil Rhodes. 2025.
William Taubman. Biography of Nikita Krushchev. 2003.
William Taubman. Biography of Mikhail Gorbachev. 2017.
Yepoka Yeebo. Biography of John Ackah Blay-Miezah. 2023.