She is the author of a well-received biography of Tallulah Bankhead.

Norma Major, a teacher who stayed at home to raise the couple's two children, has written a well-received biography of Dame Joan.

Rentoul gives lectures on contemporary history, is a former Independent leader writer, and has also written well-received biographies of Tony Blair.

She declined, but subsequently wrote a well-received biography of him published in 1982.

He has rendered John Adams and Theodore Roosevelt, men with large footprints in New York, into well-received biographies.

He was poetry and fiction editor of The Times Literary Supplement and had written a well-received biography of Robert Lowell, approved by the poet's family.

Its author, Adam Zamoyski, has written well-received biographies of Chopin and Paderewski, but this is his first attempt at a panoramic view of a nation's history.

That same year, he published a well-received biography on Charles Whitehead entitled A Forgotten Genius (1884).

It was following the death of Gianni that Iris Origo embarked on her writing career, with a well-received biography of Giacomo Leopardi, published in 1935.

In 1955 he published a well-received biography of Alexander von Humboldt, which has been translated into Spanish.