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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“The best part of a writer’s biography is not the record of his adventures but the story of his style.”
—Vladimir Nabokov (1899–1977)
“In how few words, for instance, the Greeks would have told the story of Abelard and Heloise, making but a sentence of our classical dictionary.... We moderns, on the other hand, collect only the raw materials of biography and history, “memoirs to serve for a history,” which is but materials to serve for a mythology.”
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