Robert Allan Caro is an American journalist and author known for his biographies of United States political figures Robert Moses and Lyndon Johnson..

Ronald Chernow is an American writer, journalist, and biographer.

**Sir Martin Gilbert** carved out an extraordinary legacy as one of Britain's most prolific and respected historians, authoring an astounding 88 books during his remarkable career.

Mary Lynn Kotz is a journalist and author who has published four books as well as numerous articles for major publications in the fields of history, politics, and art. She is known for her biography of Robert Rauschenberg, which followed five years of near isolation in her office near Washington. She lives with her husband, author Nick Kotz, on a cattle farm in Broad Run, Virginia.

Alexander Murray Palmer Haley was an American writer and the author of the 1976 book Roots: The Saga of an American Family.