2004 Death William Manchester, biographer, Douglas McArthur, dies at 82 1997 Death Leon Edel, biographer, literary critic, wrote biography of Henry James, won Pulitzer Prize, dies at 89 1994 Death Albert Goldman, U.S. biographer (Lives of John Lennon), dies at 66 1992 Death William A Swanberg, biographer (Henry Luce, Pulitzer 1973), dies at 84 1962 Death Edward Godfrey Richard Aldington, novelist/biographer, dies 1935 Birthday Michael Holroyd, born in London, England, author, biographer, wrote biographies of George Bernard Shaw, Augustus John 1933 Birthday Claire Tomalin, biographer/editor 1932 Birthday Antonia Fraser, biographer, Mary Queen of Scots 1932 Death [Giles] Lytton Strachey, British biographer/critic, dies at 51 1921 Birthday Elaine Dundy, born in New York, American novelist, biographer, journalist, actress, playwright 1920 Birthday Erbet Pawel, biographer, Kafka 1919 Birthday Meriol Trevor, novelist/biographer, Civil Prisoners 1917 Birthday Leo Abse, biographer/MP 1910 Death Lady Mosley, biographer, dies 1907 Birthday Leon Edel, born in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, biographer, literary critic, wrote biography of Henry James, won Pulitzer Prize, wrote on James Joyce, taught literature at Sir George Williams University, now Concordia University 1906 Birthday Countess of Longford, biographer/historian 1906 Birthday Francis Steegmuller, U.S., biographer, Cocteau 1905 Birthday Peter C Quennell, English biographer/critic, Byron in Italy 1887 Birthday Hesketh Pearson, England, biographer/playwright, Writ for Libel 1885 Birthday Andre Maurois, Elbeuf, France, novelist/biographer 1881 Birthday Emil Ludwig, German biographer, Diana, Son of Man 1880 Birthday Lytton Strachey, biographer and critic, Benson Medal 1923 1878 Birthday Carl Sandburg, U.S., poet/biographer of Lincoln, The People, Yes 1864 Death Anton Schindler, German violinist and biographer (Beethoven), dies at 68 1854 Death John G Lockhart, scorpion, English biographer, dies at 60 1840 Birthday Austin Dobson, England, poet, critic and biographer 1832 Birthday John George Nicolay, U.S., author, Abe Lincoln's biographer 1828 Birthday Margaret Oliphant, Scotland, novelist and biographer, Beleaguered City 1825 Birthday Arthur Haygarth, cricketer, Middlesex and Surrey bat, famous biographer 1794 Birthday John G Lockhart, Scorpion, biographer, Life of Sir Walter Scott 1788 Death Thomas Sheridan, actor/biographer/lexicographer (Intelligencer), dies 1774 Birthday Robert Southey, English poet laureate/biographer of Nelson 1763 Event Samuel Johnson meets his future biographer James Boswell in London 1749 Birthday Johann Nikolaus Forkel, musicologist/1st biographer of Bach 1740 Birthday James Boswell, Scotland, Samuel Johnson's biographer 1593 Birthday Izaak Walton, England, biographer/fisherman/writer, Compleat Angler 840 Death Eginhard, French nobleman/biographer (Vita Karoli Magni), dies at 69
