I don't have a particular person in mind, but there is an author that writes really good biographies. His name is Irving Stone.

It is not a dry account of the persons life, but he puts it in the form of a story. From what I understad he goes to the places that these people live and have been. He does a tremdous amount of reseach so that all of the facts are acurate.

A couple of the ones that I have read:
- The Agony and the Ecstasy: A Biographical Novel of Michelangelo
- Lust for Life(Vincent Van Gogh)
- Origin(Charles Darwin)

He has alot of of others, and I think that they are all written in the form of story and not a dry account.

I don't know if you can use these, but I really enjoyed them and I read them for pleasure and not for school. If you have any questions let me know.