Possible Clues:

• Biographer has to dry up about reformer when lady's left
• Classic author of animated character, not altogether superior
• "Parallel Lives" writer
• 'On the Malice of Herodotus' author
• Ralph cut (anag) — Greek biographer
• 'Parallel Lives' author
• Historian shows god of death almost roguish
• Classic Greek biographer
• Old Greek writer's place, penning line, by bridge
• Greek historian, biographer, and philosopher