Biography
- Alan Bullock (1914–2004) - Historian best known for his influential biography of Hitler
- Thomas Carlyle (1795–1881 - Friedrich der Grosse (the Great)
- Vincent Cronin - Louis XIV, Louis XVI and Marie Antoinette, Catherine the Great, and Napoleon
- Ragnhild Hatton, biographer of King Charles XII of Sweden and King George I of Great Britain.
- Ian Kershaw (1943- Historian well known for his influential study of Hitler
- Roi Medvedev - Stalin biographer
- Ron Rosenbaum - author of Explaining Hitler.
- Jean Edward Smith - author of biographies on Franklin D. Roosevelt, Ulysses S. Grant, John Marshall, and Lucius D. Clay
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“A biography is like a handshake down the years, that can become an arm-wrestle.”
—Richard Holmes (b. 1945)
“A great biography should, like the close of a great drama, leave behind it a feeling of serenity. We collect into a small bunch the flowers, the few flowers, which brought sweetness into a life, and present it as an offering to an accomplished destiny. It is the dying refrain of a completed song, the final verse of a finished poem.”
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