Elizabeth Gilbert

Elizabeth Gilbert

female, 40 years old
Women travel writer, American women writer, Pilgrims, novelist, writer, Short story writer…Biographer
Elizabeth Gilbert (born 1969) is an American novelist, essayist, short story writer, biographer and memoirist.

Richard Brookhiser

male
founder, The Normal One, Founding Fathers of the United States, historian, Biographer, Yale Law School
Richard Brookhiser, an American journalist, biographer and historian, is a senior editor at "National Review" and columnist for "The New York...
Diane Middlebrook

Diane Middlebrook

female, 70 years old
Stanford University, poet, Biographer, American, Diane (Wood) Middlebrook, Professor Emerita
Diane (Wood) Middlebrook (born 1939) is an American biographer, poet, and teacher. She is best known for critically acclaimed biographies of poets...
David Herbert Donald

David Herbert Donald

male, 89 years old
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign alumni, goodman, University College London, University Of Illinois At Urbana-Champaign, Johns Hopkins University, american civil war…Biographer
David Herbert Donald (b. 1920, Goodman, Mississippi) is a historian of the American Civil War. Donald took his PhD in 1945 under James G. Randall...
Humphrey Carpenter

Humphrey Carpenter

male, deceased (2005)
death by myocardial infarction, jazz musician, Alumni of Keble College, Oxford, Old Dragon, Night Waves, Broadcaster…Biographer
Humphrey William Bouverie Carpenter was an English biographer, author and radio broadcaster. He was born, died, and lived practically all of his...
Rick Perlstein

Rick Perlstein

male
the new republic, historian, Biographer, Political writer, The Stock Ticker and the Superjumbo, Before the Storm
Rick Perlstein is the author of the New York Times bestseller Nixonland: The Rise of a President and the Fracturing of America (Scribner)....
Hilary Spurling

Hilary Spurling

female, 69 years old
matisse, John Spurling, Commander of the Order of the British Empire, Biographer, journalist, British
Hilary Susan Spurling, CBE (born 1940) is a British writer, known as a journalist and biographer. She won the Whitbread Prize for her two-volume...
Diogenes Laertius

Diogenes Laertius

male
doxography, third century, Pyrrhonism, Lives and Opinions of Eminent Philosopher, Clitomachus, Stephanus of Byzantium…Biographer
Diogenes Laërtius, the biographer of the Greek philosophers, is supposed by some to have received his surname from the town of Laerte in Cilicia, a...
Teller

Teller

male, 61 years old
silent, penn & teller, magician, quiet, Humanist, sleight of hand…Biographer
Teller (born Raymond Joseph Teller) February 14, 1948) is an American magician, best known as the smaller (5'9"/1.75 m compared to Penn's 6'6"/1.98...
Nancy Mitford

Nancy Mitford

female, deceased (1973)
English women writer, versailles, Mitford sister, noblesse oblige, Love from Nancy The Letters of Nancy Mitford, The Letters of Nancy Mitford and Evelyn Waugh…Biographer
The Hon. Nancy Freeman-Mitford, CBE (28 November 1904, London - Versailles, 30 June 1973), was a novelist and biographer, one of the 'Bright Young...