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Biographers are authors who write an account of another person's life, while autobiographers are authors who write their own biography.

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Biography (from the Greek words bios meaning "life", and graphein meaning "write") is a genre of literature and other forms of media such as film, based on the written accounts of individual lives.
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Alfred Ainger

Canon Alfred Ainger, by Leslie Ward, 1892.
Born: January 9 1837(1837--)

Died: January 8 1904 (aged 68)

Occupation: Biographer and critic
Nationality: English


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Charles Lamb (London, 10 February 1775 – Edmonton, 27 December 1834) was an English essayist with Welsh heritage, best known for his Essays of Elia and for the children's book Tales from Shakespeare
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Ellis Edward Amburn
Born: July 2 1933 (1933--) (age 74)
Jack County, Texas, U.S.
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James Boswell

Born: September 29 1740(1740--)
Edinburgh, Scotland
Died: May 19 1795 (aged 56)
London, England
Occupation: Lawyer, Diarist, Author

James Boswell, 9th Laird of Auchinleck
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Samuel Johnson

Samuel Johnson circa 1772,
painted by Sir Joshua Reynolds.
Born: September 18 [O.S. September 7] 1709
Lichfield, England
Died: November 13 1784
London, England
Occupation: poet, biographer,
essayist, lexicographer
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Vincent Brome
Born: July 14 1910(1910--)
London, England
Died: September 21 2004 (aged 94)

Occupation: English writer
Nationality: English

Vincent Brome
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Zero Mostel

Mostel in The Producers
Birth name Samuel Joel Mostel
Born January 28 1915(1915--)
Brooklyn, New York, U.S.
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Alan J. Pakula

Pakula in Sweden 1990

Born April 7, 1928
The Bronx, New York City, New York, USA
Died November 19, 1998
Melville, Long Island, New York, USA

Spouse(s) Hope Lange (1963-1971)
Hannah Cohn Boorstin (1973-1998)
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Moss Hart (October 24 1904 – December 20 1961) was an American playwright and director of plays and musical theater. Hart recalled his youth, early career and rise to fame in his autobiography, Act One, adapted to film in 1963, with George Hamilton portraying Hart.
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Sir Samuel Brydges, Bt
Born: November 30 1762(1762--)

Died: September 8 1837 (aged 76)

Occupation: bibliographer, genealogist, Member of Parliament for Maidstone from 1812 to 1818
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Andrea Cagan
Born:

Occupation: biographer and writer
Nationality: American
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Andrea Cagan is an American writer and biographer.
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Nirad C. Chaudhuri
Pseudonym: Balahak Nandi
Born: November 23 1897(1897--)
Kishoregunge, Mymensingh, British India (presently Bangladesh)
Died: July 1 1999 (aged 103)
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Robert Clive, 1st Baron Clive, KB (29 September 1725–22 November 1774), also known as Clive of India, established the military and political supremacy of the East India Company in Southern India and Bengal.
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Friedrich Max Müller (December 6, 1823 – October 28, 1900), more commonly known as Max Müller, was a German philologist and Orientalist, one of the founders of Indian studies, who virtually created the discipline of comparative religion.
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Thomas J. DiLorenzo (born 1954) is an American economics professor at Loyola College in Maryland. He is an adherent of the Austrian School of Economics. He is a senior faculty member of the Ludwig von Mises Institute and an affiliated scholar of the League of the South
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Abraham Lincoln (February 12, 1809 – April 15, 1865) was the sixteenth President of the United States, serving from March 4, 1861 until his death on April 15, 1865. As an outspoken opponent of the expansion of slavery, he won the Republican Party nomination in 1860 and was
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Damon DiMarco (b. October 16 1971, Princeton, New Jersey) is a New York City biographical and narrative author and historian whose work has been compared to that of Studs Terkel.
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Roy Simmons

November 8 1956 (1956--) (age 51)
Savannah, Georgia

Position(s)| Guard
College| Georgia Tech
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Richard Ellmann (March 15 1918 – May 13 1987) was a prominent American/British literary critic and biographer of Irish writers such as James Joyce, Oscar Wilde, and William Butler Yeats.
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James Joyce

James Joyce, ca. 1918
Born: 2 January 1884(1884--)
Rathgar, Dublin, Ireland
Died: 13 January 1941 (aged 60)
Zürich, Switzerland
Occupation: Novelist and Poet
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Oscar Wilde

Born: September 16 1854(1854--)
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William Butler Yeats (IPA: /ˈjeɪts/; 13 June 1865 – 28 January 1939) was an Irish poet and dramatist, and one of the foremost figures of 20th-century literature.
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Wayne Federman

Wayne Federman

Born May 22 1959 (1959--) (age 48)
Los Angeles, California

Wayne Federman
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Peter "Pistol Pete" Maravich (June 22 1947 – January 5 1988) was an Serbian-American basketball player known for his dazzling ballhandling, incredible shooting abilities, and creative passing.
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William Fitzstephen (died 1191) was a servant of Thomas a Becket, witnessed his murder, and wrote his biography. William Fitzstephen also wrote an interesting account of London in the 12th century, which was included in the biography as a preface.
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Archbishop and Martyr
Born c. 1118, Cheapside, London
Died November 29 1170, Canterbury
Venerated in Roman Catholic Church, Anglican Communion
Beatified February 21,1173
Major shrine Canterbury Cathedral
Feast December 29
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Amanda Lucy Foreman (born 1968 in London, England, UK) is an award-winning British/American biographer.

The daughter of renowned screenwriter and film producer Carl Foreman (1914-1984) who had to move to England in order to work after being blacklisted by the Hollywood movie
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Antonia Fraser

The Orion Publishing Group Ltd © Sue Greenhill
Born: July 27 1932 (1932--) (age 75)

Nationality: English
Writing period: 1969–
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