biographer

Malcolm X

African-American Muslim minister and human rights activist who was a prominent figure during the civil rights movement

Andrea Wulf

German-British historian and writer who has written books, newspaper articles and book reviews.

Virginia Woolf

English writer, considered one of the most important modernist 20th-century authors and a pioneer in the use of stream of consciousness as a narrative device

Garry Wills

American author, journalist, and historian, specializing in American history, politics, and religion, especially the history of the Catholic Church

Evelyn Waugh

English writer of novels, biographies, and travel books; he was also a prolific journalist and book reviewer

Giorgio Vasari

Italian painter, architect, engineer, writer, and historian, best known for his Lives of the Most Excellent Painters, Sculptors, and Architects, considered the ideological foundation of art-historical writing, and the basis for biographies of several Renaissance artists, including Leonardo da Vinci