Biographers and historians

Dionysius of Halicarnassus

Dionysius of Halicarnassus (Διονύσιος ὁ Ἀλικαρνασσεύς) was a Greek historian and teacher of rhetoric who moved to Rome after 30 BC and wrote the Roman Antiquities, a history of early Rome in 20 books.

Djibril Tamsir Niane

Djibril Tamsir Niane (1932–2021) was a Guinean historian, playwright, and short-story writer whose 1960 French version of the Sundiata epic, Soundjata, made oral tradition a recognized source for African history.

Donna Zuckerberg

Donna Zuckerberg (born 1987) is an American classicist, author of Not All Dead White Men on antifeminist uses of classical texts, and founding editor-in-chief of the online classics publication Eidolon (2015–2020).

Doris Kearns Goodwin

Doris Kearns Goodwin (born 1943) is an American presidential historian and Pulitzer Prize winner for No Ordinary Time; author of Team of Rivals, basis for Spielberg's Lincoln, and An Unfinished Love Story (2024).

Douglas Gresham

Douglas Gresham (born 1945, New York City) is C. S. Lewis's stepson, author of Lenten Lands and Jack's Life, co-producer of the 2005 Narnia film, and a custodian of the Lewis estate.

Edwin D. Mead

Edwin D. Mead (1849–1937) was an American writer and Boston lecturer on social and historical topics, and editor of the New England Magazine from 1889 to 1901.

Enrique Santos Molano

Enrique Santos Molano (1942–2024) was a Colombian writer, journalist, and historical researcher at the newspaper El Tiempo, known for biographies of Antonio Nariño and José Asunción Silva.

Erik Gustaf Geijer

Erik Gustaf Geijer (1783–1847) was a Swedish historian, poet, philosopher, and composer, professor of history at Uppsala University and a leading figure of Swedish National Romanticism.

Erik Larson (author)

Erik Larson (born 1954, Brooklyn) is the American narrative nonfiction author of The Devil in the White City, In the Garden of Beasts, Dead Wake, and The Demon of Unrest; seven NYT bestsellers, twelve million copies. Not the AI researcher Erik J. Larson.

Euclides da Cunha

Euclides da Cunha, full name Euclides Rodrigues da Cunha (1866 to 1909), was a Brazilian writer whose classic Os Sertões (1902) recounts the Canudos campaign.

Eugène Baie

Eugène Baie (1874–1963) was a Belgian French-language essayist, historian, and economist who led international commerce and statistics institutes and wrote Le siècle des Gueux, a six-volume history of Flemish sensibility.

Faustus of Byzantium

Faustus of Byzantium, known in Armenian as Pʿawstos Buzand, is the conventional name of a fifth-century author whose Buzandaran chronicles fourth-century Armenia, surviving as Books III to VI.

Fitrat

Abdurauf Fitrat (1886–1938) was a Central Asian Jadid writer and statesman from Bukhara who wrote in Persian and Uzbek and was executed in the Stalin-era purges.

Francisco Cervantes de Salazar

Francisco Cervantes de Salazar (c. 1514–1575) was a Spanish Renaissance humanist and the first professor of rhetoric at the Royal and Pontifical University of Mexico.

Francisco Sosa

Francisco Sosa, full name Francisco de Paula Sosa Escalante, was a Mexican biographer, journalist, poet, and historian known for Biografías de mexicanos distinguidos (1884), a collection of more than a hundred short lives of notable Mexicans.

František Martin Pelcl

František Martin Pelcl, also spelled Pelzel, was a Czech historian and Enlightenment figure who in 1793 became the first professor of Czech language and literature at Prague University.

Gail Lumet Buckley

Gail Lumet Buckley (Gail Horne Jones, 1937–2024), American journalist and author, daughter of Lena Horne; wrote The Hornes, American Patriots, and The Black Calhouns.

Gardizi

Gardizi (Abu Sa'id Abd-al-Hayy b. Zahhak b. Mahmud Gardizi) was an 11th-century Persian historian in the Ghaznavid court whose Zayn al-Akhbar is the earliest surviving original Persian historiography.

Geoffrey Blainey

Geoffrey Blainey, born 1930 in Melbourne, is a prolific Australian historian whose more than forty books include The Tyranny of Distance and A Short History of the World.

Geoffrey Keating

Geoffrey Keating (Irish: Seathrún Céitinn, c. 1580–1644) was an Irish Catholic priest, poet, and historian whose prose history Foras Feasa ar Éirinn (c. 1634) shaped Irish historiography for centuries.

Gerald of Wales

Giraldus Cambrensis (Gerald de Barry, c. 1146–1223) was a Norman-Welsh churchman and Latin writer, archdeacon of Brecon, best known for the Topographia Hibernica and his works on Wales.

Ghevond

Ghevond (Ղևոնդ; also Ghewond or Łewond) was an eighth-century Armenian priest and historian, the main source for Arab rule over Armenia and the Armenian uprisings of the 700s.

Ghulam Rasul Mehr

Ghulam Rasul Mehr, also written Ghulam Rasool Mehr (مولانا غلام رسول مہر), was an Urdu and Persian scholar, journalist, and historian in Lahore who died there in 1971.

Giovanni Villani

Giovanni Villani (died 1348) was a Florentine merchant, banker, and public official who wrote the Nuova Cronica, a twelve-book chronicle famed for its economic data.

Golo Mann

Golo Mann, born Angelus Gottfried Thomas Mann, was a German-Swiss historian and writer, the third child of the novelist Thomas Mann, best known for his biography Wallenstein.

Gonzague de Reynold

Gonzague de Reynold (1880–1970) was a Swiss Catholic conservative historian and essayist from Fribourg, professor of French literature at the Universities of Bern and Fribourg.

Harold Bloom

Harold Bloom (1930–2019), American literary critic and Yale Sterling Professor of the Humanities, author of The Anxiety of Influence (1973) and The Western Canon (1994); theorist of poetic influence, not the Harvard or other Blooms.

Hazel Rowley

Hazel Rowley (1951–2011) was a British-born Australian biographer whose acclaimed books include Tête-à-Tête, on Simone de Beauvoir and Jean-Paul Sartre, and a study of Franklin and Eleanor Roosevelt.

Henrik Schück

Henrik Schück (1855–1947) was a Swedish literary and cultural historian, professor at Lund and Uppsala and rector there from 1905 to 1918, best known for Illustrerad svensk litteraturhistoria.