The Largest Selection of Specialist Writers In The World
With the largest selection of specialist writers in the world, we can match you with the perfect biographer for your book based on your background, goals, personality and location. You can work with junior, senior or premium writer.
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James M
James has been asking questions and writing stories ever since he could read. Over the decades since, his writing skills and inquisitive passion for knowledge have grown. Through jobs in law, writing, and teaching, he has developed a deep appreciation of the written word, written well. Essentially, he loves to share fascinating stories with all sorts of audiences, whether online or in print, virtually or live. Wherever there are people, there are adventures, and James aims to tell them well.
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Jacqueline C
Jackie thinks her true talent might be singing, but her husband suggests she save that gift for the family. She is a writer in the Washington, DC area with clients including the Yale University Press and Cavendish Square Publishing. She had the privilege of working with Dr. Jane Goodall for over ten years as a writer and editor at the Jane Goodall Institute and more recently enjoyed five years as a writer at the National Science Foundation. Now a freelancer, she recently published a book called Martin Luther King Jr.: Fulfilling a Dream.
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Jackson K
Jackson often wears running sneakers because he’s always tripping over history. The author of the Revolutionary War biography Samuel Smedley, Connecticut Privateer, Jackson’s written about ghost towns, lost states, and forgotten heroes for Atlas Obscura, the Hartford Courant, National Geographic News, and others. He also likes to write fiction set in historical times. When he’s not writing or running, Jackson paddles the waters of Long Island Sound with a little white dog on the front of his board.
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Ira B
Ira started his first writing gig days after graduating high school, launching a movie review column in his small-town newspaper. Since then he’s written in just about every capacity imaginable, from features in the Minneapolis Star-Tribune, Time Out Chicago, and Minneapolis St. Paul Magazine to fiction in outlets like Pseudopod, No Sleep, and Hypertext to business copy for major retailers. He earned an English degree at the University of Minnesota and an MFA from Columbia College Chicago. He lives and works in St. Paul, Minnesota.
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Henry D
Henry was born and raised in Rancho Cucamonga, California into a family of engineers and entrepreneurs. Henry is a writer, speaker, story strategist, professional swing dancer, tournament chess player, improv comedian, and, most importantly, a soon-to-be husband. He believes that legacy is more important than destiny and loves to help individuals leave their own legacy for their loved ones. He has worked as a freelance writer, editor, and writing consultant, helping small business owners tell their stories. He loves to use his diverse life experience to connect with others.
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Helaina H R
Helaina is an editor, journalist, author, storyteller, and native New Yorker who has always had the unreasonable notion that she can help change the world. She is a mental health advocate and hope-finder, striving to create compelling emotional narratives around important and meaningful topics. She is the author of the memoir “After 9/11.” Her bylines can be found in over 50 publications such as Forbes, Huffington Post, The New York Times, Salon, Newsday, Teen Vogue, and many others.
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Heide B
Heide is an award-winning journalist and editor with more than eighteen years of experience. She regularly contributes to numerous state, regional, and national publications, and has been published in Forbes, Silicon66, The Guardian UK, The Wall Street Journal, The Washington Post, Destinations Travel Magazine, New York Daily News, the New York Times, and more. Additionally, she is the Oklahoma correspondent for Reuters News Service. Heide is an avid traveler, medieval warrior, hiker, and professional belly dancer and instructor in Oklahoma City.
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Harry H
After fifteen years writing for newspapers and magazines, Harry wrote his first book, Help! Everyone is Staring at Me. In it, he uses his background as an award-winning radio talk show host and longtime teacher and professional speaker to give readers tips on overcoming the fear of public speaking. Harry followed that with the first book ever written on the late nineteenth-century endurance walkers called The Pedestriennes, America’s Forgotten Superstars. It’s won three national writing awards. Harry co-wrote a screenplay based on the book, which is now in the office of a major Hollywood director.
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Greg S
Greg has been telling stories professionally for more than 30 years through his work in consulting, government, higher education, the arts, and media. As a freelance writer Greg has been published in Stanford magazine, Alaska Airlines Magazine, Horizon Edition magazine, Arches at the University of Puget Sound, and Insights at Saint Martin’s University. He writes the blog SeattleAstronomy.com, and has also written about astronomy and space for Reflector, the magazine of the Astronomical League. He earned a degree in communication from the University of Washington.
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Gail K
When Gail’s not steeped in World War II historical research, writing, or editing, you’ll find her reading for fun, gardening, or enjoying her grandchildren in Northern Iowa. Women of the Heartland, Gail’s World War II series, highlights women of The Greatest Generation. Gail taught college expository writing and ESL before writing women’s historical fiction. From northern Iowa, she facilitates writing workshops and women’s retreats, and enjoys the Arizona Ponderosa forest in winter.
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Everett C
After earning a BA in Creative Writing from the University of Michigan, Everett has written about sports for The Los Angeles Times and Boston Globe, food for The Desert Sun in Palm Springs, and small businesses for a San Francisco startup. His freelance work has been published in The New York Times, The Atlantic, The Detroit Free Press, and others. He also taught English and outdoor education in the woods of New Hampshire with Michigan’s New England Literature Program. Everett currently writes for a variety of publications and teaches in Queens, NY.
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Ernesto M
Ernesto has taught at prestigious MFA writing programs over the last two decades, including Brown, Sarah Lawrence, and Brooklyn College. His work has been awarded fellowships from the Guggenheim Foundation and the New York Foundation for the Arts. His novels have received critical acclaim, and his third novel, Sacrificio, is forthcoming in 2021. He has also edited many novels that went on to be published at various major New York publishing houses, including Picador, Simon & Schuster, Harper Collins, and Knopf, and has ghostwritten memoirs, historical novels, and thrillers.
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Erin S
Erin believes words have the power to heal, influence, and shape the world. Based in Orange County, CA, she studied Broadcast Journalism at Northern Arizona University, and spent nearly 20 years in corporate, non-profit, and agency communications writing about enterprise software, spacecraft components, Walt Disney Resorts beverage programs, and everything in between. It was through her church that Erin’s passion for personal storytelling emerged. She has produced nearly 100 print and video stories that capture personal accounts of found faith, trauma and relational healing, and significant milestones.
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Elsa H
Growing up in the snow like a wildling near the Arctic Circle in Sweden, Elsa feels strangely at home in the subtropical swamps of Louisiana. She’s an award-winning writer, photographer, designer, and author of You Are Where You Eat: Stories and Recipes from the Neighborhoods of New Orleans and The Gravy: In the Kitchen with New Orleans Musicians. Elsa is the longtime Art Director and Food Editor at OffBeat magazine, New Orleans’ premier music monthly. She’s often seen skateboarding around Audubon Park with her Cajun partner and their three kids.
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Ellen F J
Ellen has written for newspapers and magazines all over the world. A former BBC broadcaster and published author, she is British but lives in the US. Ellen has interviewed hundreds of celebrities, showbusiness stars, sports personalities, politicians, members of the British Royal family, and one American President. Ellen’s passion is helping people with real-life stories share them.
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Ellen BL
Ellen discovered her love of crafting stories at a young age when, in the first grade, she wrote a poem about her favorite things. She is the author of several award-winning picture books and the content coordinator and writer for two monthly magazines, as well as a freelance writer and blogger. She also has a background in economics and marketing. Books, healthy cooking, spiritual growth, classical music, travel, and being a mom top the list of passions for this well-rounded, creative soul. Ellen enjoys learning about successful people and what makes them tick.
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Doug M
Trained as a journalist, Doug’s non-fiction passions are science, history, and biography, which come in handy for his time travel books. He has written over 200 episodes for TV genres from sitcom to science fiction, from crime drama to cartoon, from fantasy to western. He is the author of four novels, with a fifth in the works. He’s also a comedy professional if you should want some humor in your story. Your call. His TV writing background means he sees his job as fulfilling your vision.
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Diana H
There is nothing as important for the future as documenting the past. Diana loves the challenge of helping people craft their histories into compelling narratives. She is the award-winning author of six novels for Hachette Book Group, a parenting memoir, and a children’s book for Penguin Random House. She’s won the New York Book Festival award for Best Novel and has garnered a coveted starred review from Publisher’s Weekly. A graduate of Columbia University, she lives with her husband, two cats, and way too many books.
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Dave D
Lives make the best stories, and Dave thrives on telling them. The author of ten published books, Dave is fondest of an award-winning biography of Michigan’s longest-serving governor and two books of mini-biographies of famous and forgotten writers with Michigan connections. Dave has a bachelor’s in English and master’s in science. A long-ago newspaper reporter and lifelong listener, he knows what questions to ask to generate both headlines and deeper content. Dave is a voracious reader, veteran runner, faithful baseball fan, and student of the outdoors.
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Danielle E
Danielle has more than a decade of experience writing for The Atlantic Monthly, National Geographic, ESPN, Vice, Nautilus, Grantland.com and other industry-leading publications and websites. Whether profiling a doctor who is rewriting our understanding of Autism, two high-school football stars facing a life-changing decision, or a neuroscientist preparing to showcase his experimental work at the World Cup, she approaches her subjects with curiosity and compassion. Danielle earned a B.A. from the University of Maryland and holds an M.A. from the Graduate School of Journalism at Columbia University.
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Daniel B
Dan is a seasoned journalist and non-fiction writer who lives and works in Cambridge. He has written for The Atlantic, Harvard Magazine, Cape Cod Life, and Gray’s Sporting Journal, among others, and is also the author of The Red Rose Crew: A True Story of Women, Winning and the Water, a Boston Globe bestseller. In addition to his writing, Dan has been a teacher, a rowing coach, and a musician. He loves telling other people’s stories, particularly those which can inspire and influence generations to come.
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Cynthia S
Cynthia penned her first book during childhood, and she’s been writing ever since. Now a published author with Macmillan, she’s ghostwritten four memoirs and co-authored two health books—one with Dr. Seymour Diamond. Although she’s provided writing and editing for six publishers and fifteen book manuscripts, Cynthia’s first love is memoir writing. “Personal memoir is a priceless legacy,” she says, “because every life has a unique storyline worth sharing. So what’s your story?” Cynthia will help you tell it with a one-of-a-kind narrative you can share with family and friends.
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Claire T
Claire studied magazine journalism at Northwestern University and went on to write for the environmental news website Grist before quitting her desk job to pursue a more restless life of seasonal work and travel. Over the last four years, she’s worked on trail crews in some of the most ruggedly scenic corners of the West, waited tables, relearned how to ski, and lived on the road for months at a time. She believes the world is full of compelling true stories—if you know where to find them.
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Cristina M
Cristina is a native New Yorker who currently lives with her dog in Red Hook, Brooklyn. She is the author of the novels Althea & Oliver and A Good Idea and has an MFA in Creative Writing from Brooklyn College. A fan of true crime stories, coffee ice cream, and punk rock shows, these days she is teaching herself to play the guitar and read tarot cards while writing her next book.
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