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Sima Guang
Sima Guang (司马光, 1019–1086) was a Northern Song historian and statesman who led the compilation of the Zizhi Tongjian, a monumental general history of China.
Sima Tan
Sima Tan (司馬談, died 110 BC) was a Western Han Grand Historian under Emperor Wu and the father of Sima Qian, who originated the Shiji.
Simon Sebag Montefiore
Simon Sebag Montefiore (born 1965) is a British historian and novelist of Russian and Middle Eastern history, author of Stalin: The Court of the Red Tsar, Young Stalin, Jerusalem: The Biography, The Romanovs, The World, and The Cauldron.
Sukumar Sen
Sukumar Sen (সুকুমার সেন; 1900–1992) was an Indian linguist and historian of Bengali literature at the University of Calcutta, known for his History of Bengali Literature and a two-volume etymological dictionary of Bengali.
Tadhkira
Tadhkira is a genre of Islamicate biographical anthology that gathers short lives of a defined class of people, most often poets, with selections from their works.
Terry Eagleton
Terry Eagleton (Terence Eagleton, born 1943, Salford) is a British Marxist literary critic and theorist, author of Literary Theory: An Introduction (1983), Warton Professor at Oxford, later Manchester and Lancaster.
The Gay Genius
The Gay Genius, by Lin Yutang, is a 1947 English biography of the Song dynasty poet and statesman Su Tungpo, the earliest extensive study of him in English.
The Rise of Theodore Roosevelt
The Rise of Theodore Roosevelt is the first volume of Edmund Morris's trilogy, published in 1979, covering Roosevelt's rise until McKinley's death made him president in 1901.
Thomas Artsruni
Thomas Artsruni, known in Armenian as T'ovma Arcruni, was a late 9th-century Armenian historian and vardapet from the Artsruni princely house, best known for his History of the House of the Artsrunik'.
Thomas Babington Macaulay
Thomas Babington Macaulay (1800-1859), Baron Macaulay: British Whig historian, essayist, poet, and politician; author of History of England (1848-55) and the 1835 Minute on Indian Education that made English the language of government education in India.
Thomas Carlyle
Thomas Carlyle (1795–1881), Scottish essayist and historian, author of Sartor Resartus, The French Revolution, and On Heroes; coined 'dismal science' and championed the Great Man theory of history.
Trần Trọng Kim
Trần Trọng Kim, pen name Lệ Thần, was a Vietnamese historian and educator who served as prime minister of the Empire of Vietnam from March to August 1945.
Ukhtanes
Ukhtanes (Ուխտանես), also Ukhtanes Sebastatsi, ca. 935–1000, was an Armenian historian and bishop of Sebastia who wrote a three-part History of Armenia around 980–982.
Velleius Paterculus
Velleius Paterculus (c. 20 BCE – after 30 CE) was a Roman officer, senator, and historian, author of a two-book Roman History from the fall of Troy to Tiberius.
Violet Clifton
Violet Clifton, née Beauclerk, was an English writer of travel books and biography, born in Rome in 1883, who won the 1933 James Tait Black Prize for Biography.
Vṛndāvana Dāsa
Vṛndāvana Dāsa (वृन्दावन दास) was a sixteenth-century Bengali Vaiṣṇava poet and disciple of Nityānanda who wrote the Chaitanya Bhagavata, the first full-length Bangla hagiography of Krishna Chaitanya.
Walter Isaacson
Walter Isaacson (born 1952, New Orleans) is an American biographer and journalist, former TIME editor, CNN chairman, and Aspen Institute CEO, author of Steve Jobs, Einstein, Leonardo da Vinci, and Elon Musk.
Wassaf
Wassaf was a Persian historian of the Ilkhanid period, born in Shiraz around 1264, who wrote Tarikh-i Wassaf, a five-volume history of the Mongol Ilkhans.
Wilhelm Lindemann
Wilhelm Lindemann (1828–1879) was a German Catholic priest and literary historian whose Geschichte der deutschen Literatur (1866) was the first Catholic history of German literature.
William Empson
Sir William Empson (1906–1984), English poet and critic, author of Seven Types of Ambiguity (1930), a foundation of New Criticism and close reading; professor at Sheffield, knighted 1979.
Wincenty of Kielcza
Wincenty of Kielcza (Wincenty z Kielczy, c. 1200 – after 1261) was a Polish Dominican friar who wrote two lives of Saint Stanislaus and the hymn Gaude Mater Polonia.
Xun Yue
Xun Yue (荀悦, 148–209) was an Eastern Han historian and politician who wrote the Hanji, a chronicle of the Western Han, and the treatise Shenjian.
Yaadgar-e-Ghalib
Yaadgar-e-Ghalib (یادگارِ غالب) is an 1897 Urdu biography of the poet Mirza Asadullah Khan Ghalib, written by his friend Khwaja Altaf Hussain Hali and the first about him.
Yeghishe
Yeghishe (Եղիշե, also written Eghishe or Elishe) was a 5th-century Armenian historian whose History of Vardan recounts the Armenian rebellion of 450–451 against Sasanian Persia.
Zhao Ye
Zhao Ye was an Eastern Han scholar from Kuaiji, known as the author of the Wu Yue Chunqiu, a chronicle of the rival states of Wu and Yue.
Zuenir Ventura
Zuenir Ventura, full name Zuenir Carlos Ventura (1931–2026), was a Brazilian journalist and writer whose reportage books on 1968, Rio de Janeiro, and Chico Mendes became reference works.