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British biographers

38 published records, arranged alphabetically. Each entry is published only where a named source supports it.

Alan BullockAuthor · BooksAlan Louis Charles Bullock, Baron Bullock (13 December 1914 – 2 February 2004) was a British historian.
Alistair MacLeanAuthor · BooksAlistair Stuart MacLean (Alasdair MacGill-Eain; 21 April 1922 – 2 February 1987) was a Scottish novelist, who wrote popular thrillers and adventure stories.
Andrew MangoAuthor · BooksAndrew James Alexander Mango (14 June 1926 – 6 July 2014) was a British BBC employee and author.
Andrew MotionAuthor · BooksSir Andrew Motion FRSL (born 26 October 1952) is an English poet, novelist, and biographer, who was Poet Laureate from 1999 to 2009.
Archibald GeikieAuthor · Maps and atlasesSir Archibald Geikie (28 December 1835 – 10 November 1924) was a Scottish geologist and writer.
Arthur HutchingsPerson · Music memorabiliaArthur James Bramwell Hutchings (14 July 1906 – 13 November 1989) was an English musicologist, composer and professor of music.
E. P. ThompsonAuthor · BooksEdward Palmer Thompson (3 February 1924 – 28 August 1993) was an English historian, writer, socialist and peace campaigner.
Edward Frederic BensonAuthor · BooksEdward Frederic Benson (24 July 1867 – 29 February 1940) was an English novelist, biographer, memoirist, historian and short story writer.
Eleanor FarjeonAuthor · BooksEleanor Farjeon (13 February 1881 – 5 June 1965) was an English author of children's stories and plays, poetry, biography, history and satire.
Eva SchlossPhotographer · PhotographyEva Schloss (Geiringer; 11 May 1929 – 3 January 2026) was an Austrian Holocaust survivor, memoirist, and the stepdaughter of Otto Frank, the father of Margot and diarist Anne Frank.
George MikesAuthor · BooksAssociated with Health First. Indexed under Criminal Justice and Corr
Hilaire BellocAuthor · BooksJoseph Hilaire Pierre René Belloc (27 July 187016 July 1953) was a French-English writer and political activist.
Humphrey CarpenterAuthor · BooksHumphrey William Bouverie Carpenter (29 April 1946 – 4 January 2005) was an English biographer, writer, and radio broadcaster. He is known especially for his biographies of J. R. R.
Hunter DaviesAuthor · BooksEdward Hunter Davies (born 7 January 1936) is a British author, journalist and broadcaster. His books include the only authorised biography of the Beatles.
Imogen HolstPerson · Music memorabiliaImogen Clare Holst (von Holst; 12 April 1907 – 9 March 1984) was a British composer, arranger, conductor, teacher, musicologist and festival administrator.
Iris MurdochAuthor · BooksDame Jean Iris Murdoch (15 July 1919 – 8 February 1999) was an Irish and British novelist and philosopher.
Isaac DeutscherAuthor · BooksIsaac Deutscher (Izaak Deutscher; 3 April 1907 – 19 August 1967) was a Polish Marxist writer, journalist and political activist who moved to the United Kingdom before the outbreak of World…
John BuchanAuthor · BooksJohn Buchan, 1st Baron Tweedsmuir (26 August 1875 – 11 February 1940) was a Scottish novelist, historian, British Army officer, and Unionist politician who served as Governor General of…
John LehmannAuthor · BooksIllustration — John Lehmann (seated) with sister Rosamond Lehmann and Lytton Strachey
Jonathan CoeAuthor · BooksJonathan Coe (born 19 August 1961) is an English novelist and writer. His work has an underlying preoccupation with political issues, although this serious engagement is often expressed…
Jung ChangAuthor · BooksJung Chang (born 25 March 1952) is a Chinese-born British author. She is best known for her family autobiography Wild Swans, which has sold over 10 million copies worldwide but is banned in…
Marie Christine, Princess Michael of KentAuthor · BooksPrincess Michael of Kent (born Baroness Marie-Christine Anna Agnes Hedwig Ida von Reibnitz, 15 January 1945) is a member of the British royal family.
Marjorie BoultonAuthor · BooksMarjorie Boulton (7 May 1924 – 30 August 2017) was a British author and poet writing in both English and Esperanto.
Mark LewisohnPhotographer · PhotographyMark Lewisohn (born 16 June 1958) is an English historian and biographer. Since the 1980s, he has written many reference books about the Beatles and has worked for EMI, MPL Communications…
Mary RenaultAuthor · BooksEileen Mary Challans (4 September 1905 – 13 December 1983), known by her pen name Mary Renault, was a British writer best known for her historical novels set in ancient Greece.
Mary ShelleyAuthor · BooksMary Wollstonecraft Shelley (Godwin; 30 August 1797 – 1 February 1851) was an English novelist who wrote the Gothic novel Frankenstein;
Merlin HollandAuthor · BooksChristopher Merlin Vyvyan Holland (born December 1945) is a British and Irish biographer and editor.
Muriel SparkAuthor · BooksMuriel Spark is recorded as having received Dame Commander of the Order of the British Empire, James Tait Black Memorial Prize a
Nancy MitfordAuthor · BooksNancy Freeman-MitfordAlthough "Freeman-Mitford" was the family's surname after 1886, neither Nancy nor her siblings appear to have used it outside formal documents.
Penelope FitzgeraldAuthor · BooksPenelope Mary Fitzgerald (17 December 1916 – 28 April 2000) was a Booker Prize-winning novelist, poet, essayist and biographer from Lincoln, England.[1][15] In 2008 The Times listed her…
Penelope MortimerAuthor · BooksPenelope Ruth Mortimer (née Fletcher; 19 September 1918 – 19 October 1999) was a Welsh-born English journalist, biographer, and novelist.
Ranulph FiennesAuthor · BooksSir Ranulph Twisleton-Wykeham-Fiennes, 3rd Baronet (born 7 March 1944) is an English explorer and writer, who holds several endurance records.
Richard AldingtonAuthor · BooksRichard Aldington (born Edward Godfree Aldington; 8 July 1892 – 27 July 1962) was an English writer and poet. He was an early associate of the Imagist movement.
Tam DalyellAuthor · BooksSir Thomas Dalyell, 11th Baronet (9 August 1932 – 26 January 2017), known as Tam Dalyell, was a Scottish politician who served as Member of Parliament (MP) for Linlithgow (formerly West…
V. S. PritchettAuthor · BooksSir Victor Sawdon Pritchett FRSL (also known as VSP; 16 December 1900 – 20 March 1997) was a British writer and literary critic.
Vita Sackville-WestAuthor · BooksVictoria Mary, Lady Nicolson, CH (née Sackville-West; 9 March 1892 – 2 June 1962), usually known as Vita Sackville-West, was an English author and garden designer.
Vyvyan HollandAuthor · BooksVyvyan Beresford Holland, (born Vyvyan Oscar Beresford Wilde; 3 November 1886 – 10 October 1967) was an English author and translator.
Walter ScottAuthor · BooksSir Walter Scott, 1st Baronet (15 August 1771 – 21 September 1832), was a Scottish novelist, poet and historian. Many of his works remain classics of European and Scottish literature.

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