Author

Barbara Leaming

8 books, mostly biography, for Blackstone Audio, Inc. and Macmillan Audio, 2006–2024

Barbara Leaming is an American biographer and nonfiction writer known for deeply researched portraits of major figures in film, politics, and twentieth-century history. Her subjects have included Orson Welles, Rita Hayworth, Bette Davis, Katharine Hepburn, Marilyn Monroe, John F. Kennedy, Winston Churchill, and Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis. She is the author of three New York Times bestsellers, and her articles have appeared in The New York Times Magazine, Vanity Fair, and the Times of London.