Aristotle Onassis

Greek shipping magnate; built the largest private tanker fleet and founded Olympic Airways.

7 biographies about them

Biographies about them 7

Peter Evans wrote both the standard life and its sensational sequel; there is no recent scholarly biography.

Nicholas Fraser, Philip Jacobson, Mark Ottaway, Lewis Chester · 1977 · Sunday Times Insight team; the most rigorously reported of the lives.

Peter Evans · 1986 · The standard biography; Evans interviewed Onassis directly.

Willi Frischauer · 1968 · Written in his lifetime and with his cooperation.

Frank Brady · 1977 · Contemporary biography written the year after his death.

Nicholas Gage · 2000 · The Callas affair; Gage had the Greek sources nobody else worked.

Peter Evans · 2004 · Onassis and the Kennedys; its central claim is disputed.

Kiki Feroudi Moutsatsos · 1998 · Insider memoir by his personal assistant; domestic detail, little business.