Editing List of biographers (section)

===N–Z===
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*[[Ira Nadel]] (Ca, born 1943) – [[Leon Uris]], [[David Mamet]], [[Tom Stoppard]] and [[Leonard Cohen]]
*[[Alanna Nash]] (US, born 1950)
*[[Nakane Kōtei]] (Jp, 1839–1913)
*[[Philip Nel]] (US, born 1969) – [[Crockett Johnson]] and [[Ruth Krauss]]
*[[Cornelius Nepos]] (AR, 100–24 BC)
*[[Nizamuddin Asir Adrawi]] (IN, 1926–2021)
*[[Iris Origo]] (En, 1902–1988)
*[[James Parton]] (US, 1822–1891) – [[Horace Greeley]], [[Aaron Burr]], [[Andrew Jackson]], [[Benjamin Franklin]], [[Thomas Jefferson]] and [[Voltaire]]
*[[Hesketh Pearson]] (En, 1887–1964)
*[[F. David Peat]] (En, 1928–2017) – [[David Bohm]]
*[[Plutarch]] (AG, 46–127)
*[[H. F. M. Prescott]] (En, 1896–1972) – [[Mary&nbsp;I of England]] ("Bloody Mary")
*[[Arnold Rampersad]] (TT, born 1941) – [[Langston Hughes]]
*[[Piers Paul Read]] (En, born 1941) – [[Alec Guinness]]
*[[James Redpath]] (US, born En, 1833–1891) – [[John Brown (abolitionist)]]
*[[E. J. Richmond]] (US, 1825–1918) – [[Harriet Hosmer]]
*[[W. Andrew Robinson]] (En, born 1957) – [[Satyajit Ray]] and [[Rabindranath Tagore]]
*[[Romain Rolland]] (Fr, 1866–1944) – [[Beethoven]], [[Michelangelo]], [[Leo Tolstoy]] and [[Gandhi]]
*[[Henry Stephens Salt|Henry Salt]] (En, 1851–1939) – [[Percy Bysshe Shelley|Shelley]], [[Richard Jefferies]] and [[Henry David Thoreau]]
*[[Carl Sandburg]] (US, 1878–1967) – [[Abraham Lincoln]]
*[[Stacy Schiff]] (US, born 1961) – United States; [[Véra Nabokov]], [[Benjamin Franklin]], [[Antoine de Saint-Exupéry]], [[Cleopatra]] and the Witches of [[Salem, Massachusetts|Salem]]
*[[Anton Schindler]] (Ge, 1795–1864) – [[Ludwig van Beethoven]]
*[[Anne Sebba]] (En, born 1951) – [[Wallis Simpson]]
*[[Nachman Seltzer]] (Is, born 1976)
*[[Lee Server]] (US, living) – [[Robert Mitchum]] and [[Ava Gardner]]
*[[Miranda Seymour]] (En, born 1948) – [[Lady Byron|Annabella Milbanke]] and [[Ada Lovelace]], [[Hellé Nice]], [[Mary Shelley]]
*[[Kirit Shelat]] (In, born 1946) – India
*[[Dawn Langley Simmons]] (En, 1937–2000) – [[Princess Margaret]], [[Margaret Rutherford]] and [[Jacqueline Kennedy]]
*[[Roy S. Simmonds]] (En, 1925–2000) – [[John Steinbeck]], [[William March]] and [[Edward Joseph Harrington O'Brien|Edward O'Brien]]
*[[Jean Edward Smith]] (US, 1932–2019) – [[Ulysses S. Grant]], [[John Marshall]] and [[Lucius D. Clay]]
*[[Laura J. Snyder]] (US, born 1964) – [[Charles Babbage]], [[John F.W. Herschel]], [[William Whewell]], [[Richard Jones (economist)|Richard Jones]], [[Johannes Vermeer]], [[Antoni van Leeuwenhoek]] and [[Oliver Sacks]]
*[[Dava Sobel]] (US, born 1947) – [[John Harrison]], Sister [[Maria Celeste]], daughter of Galileo, [[Galileo]]
*[[Maynard Solomon]] (US, 1930–2020) – [[Ludwig van Beethoven|Beethoven]], [[Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart|W. A. Mozart]]
*[[Leslie Stephen]] (En, 1832–1904) – [[Dictionary of National Biography]], [[Samuel Johnson]], [[Alexander Pope]], [[Jonathan Swift]] [[George Eliot]] and [[Thomas Hobbes]]
*[[Jane Agnes Stewart]] (US, 1860–1944) — [[Frances Willard]]
*[[Irving Stone]] (US, 1903–1989)
*[[Lytton Strachey]] (En, 1880–1932) – eminent Victorians
*[[Marshall Terrill]] (US, born 1963) – [[Steve McQueen]], [[Elvis Presley]], [[Johnny Cash]], [[Billy Graham]], [[Pete Maravich]]
*[[Mary Wilder Tileston]] (1843–1934) - Mary Wilder White, Mary Wilder Foote, Amelia Peabody Tileston
*[[Bankole Timothy]] (SL, 1923–1994), [[Kwame Nkrumah]]
*[[Nick Tosches]] (US, 1949–2019) – [[Jerry Lee Lewis]], [[Dean Martin]] and [[Sonny Liston]]
*[[Meriol Trevor]] (En, 1919–2000) – [[John Henry Newman]], [[Philip Neri]], [[Pope John XXIII]], [[Thomas Arnold]] and [[James II of England]]
*[[Henri Troyat]] (Fr, 1911–2007) – [[Dostoevsky]], [[Leo Tolstoy]], [[Gogol]], [[Catherine the Great]], [[Peter the Great]], [[Ivan the Terrible]], [[Anton Chekhov]], [[Ivan Turgenev]], [[Maxim Gorky]] and [[Rasputin]]
*[[Jenny Uglow]] (En, born 1947) – [[Elizabeth Gaskell]], [[William Hogarth]], [[Thomas Bewick]] and the [[Lunar Society]]
*[[Rosa Kershaw Walker]] (US, 1840s–1909) – eminent Americans
*[[Blanche Warre-Cornish]] (En, 1848–1922) – [[William Thackeray]]
*[[Alison Weir (historian)|Alison Weir]] (En, born 1937) – [[Elizabeth&nbsp;I of England]], [[Eleanor of Aquitane]], [[Mary, Queen of Scots]]
*[[Sam Weller (journalist)|Sam Weller]] (US) – [[Ray Bradbury]]
*[[Theodore H. White|Theodore White]] (US, 1915–1986) – [[Lyndon B. Johnson]] and [[Richard Nixon]]
*[[Alice Willard]] (US, 1860–1936) – Bertha Baur
*[[A. N. Wilson]] (En, born 1950) – [[Sir Walter Scott]], [[John Milton]], [[Hilaire Belloc]], [[Leo Tolstoy]], [[C.&nbsp;S. Lewis]], [[Jesus]] [[Iris Murdoch]] and [[John Betjeman]]
*[[Molly Worthen]] (US, born 1981) – [[Charles Hill (diplomat)|Charles Hill]], American diplomat and [[Yale]] professor
*[[Marguerite Young]] (US, 1908–1995) – [[Eugene V. Debs]]
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