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