Frank Butterworth

Frank Butterworth is a nonfiction author and biographer. Information available from his author pages describes him as a writer focused on real lives and historical research rather than fiction.

He coauthored Paul Gauguin's Son: The Life and Times of Emile Gauguin with David McIntyre. In descriptions of the book, Emile Gauguin is presented as Butterworth's cousin-in-law and virtual grandfather, which helps explain the personal interest and depth of research behind the project.

That blend of family connection and investigative biography seems central to his work. Instead of broad celebrity portraiture, his writing appears to focus on recovering the story of a specific, little-known figure and placing that life in a wider historical setting.