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biographers who wrote historical fiction
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Ralph Ellison (1914-1994)
essayist, autobiographer, literary critic, music critic, journalist, critic, literary scholar
- Tuskegee University
Eudora Welty (1909-2001)
photographer, literary critic, autobiographer, artist
- University of Cambridge, University of Wisconsin–Madison
E. M. Forster (1879-1970)
literary critic, biographer, librettist, essayist
- Tonbridge School, University of Cambridge
Carl Sandburg (1878-1967)
poet, musicologist, historian, journalist, biographer, trade unionist
- Lombard College
Fay Weldon (1931-2023)
activist, autobiographer, opinion journalist, journalist
- University of St Andrews
H. L. Mencken (1880-1956)
satirist, literary critic, essayist, social critic, autobiographer, journalist, historian, linguist
- Baltimore Polytechnic Institute
Stuart M. Kaminsky (1934-2009)
journalist, biographer, film scholar
- University of Illinois Urbana–Champaign, Northwestern University
Diane Stanley (born 1943)
graphic designer, biographer
- Johns Hopkins University