biographer

James Lees-Milne

English writer and expert on country houses, who worked for the National Trust from 1936 to 1973. He was an architectural historian, novelist and biographer

Samuel Johnson

English writer who made lasting contributions as a poet, playwright, essayist, moralist, critic, biographer, editor and lexicographer

C. G. Jung

Swiss psychiatrist and psychoanalyst who founded analytical psychology

James Hogg

Scottish poet, novelist and essayist who wrote in both Scots and English

Washington Irving

American short-story writer, essayist, biographer, historian, and diplomat of the early 19th century

Lucy Grealy

Irish-American poet and memoirist who wrote Autobiography of a Face in 1994. This critically acclaimed book describes her childhood and early adolescent experience with cancer of the jaw, which left her with some facial disfigurement