W. A. Swanberg
W. A. Swanberg was an American biographer. A graduate of the University of Minnesota, Swanberg worked as a journalist, and after serving in the Office of War Information during World War II, was employed as a freelance writer and an author of a number of scholarly biographies. He is known for Citizen Hearst, a biography of William Randolph Hearst, which was recommended by the Pulitzer Prize board in 1962.