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"Michael Holroyd" published on by null. (1935- ),author and biographer, born in London. His first book, a critical biography of Kingsmill, was followed by a two‐volume life of Strachey (The Unknown Years, 1967; The Years of Achievement, 1968), a work which greatly contributed to a revival of interest in the Bloomsbury Group and to a new.


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Michael Holroyd has 102 books on Goodreads with 44713 ratings. Michael Holroyd's most popular book is Lytton Strachey: The New Biography.


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Michael Holroyd is the author of acclaimed biographies of George Bernard Shaw, the painter Augustus John, Lytton Strachey, and Ellen Terry and Henry Irving, as well as two memoirs, Basil Street Blues and Mosaic.


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Michael Holroyd is the author of acclaimed biographies of George Bernard Shaw, the painter Augustus John, Lytton Strachey, and Ellen Terry and Henry Irving, as well as two memoirs, Basil Street Blues and Mosaic.


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Michael Holroyd is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature and holds honorary degrees from the universities of Ulster, Sheffield, Warwick, East Anglia and the London School of Economics. In 1989 he was awarded the CBE for services to literature. He is married to the novelist Margaret Drabble and lives in London and Somerset.


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Michael Holroyd, (born August 27, 1935, London, England), British writer and editor best known for his meticulous, scholarly biographies of Lytton Strachey, Augustus John, and George Bernard Shaw. After graduating from Eton College, Holroyd worked at a law firm for two years before joining the army.


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The author Michael Holroyd, a distinguished English biographer, says this is his last book. His concentration in his long list of books seems to be on the English literati of the early 20th century. (His biography of Lytton Strachey was the basis of the film Carrington). This book involves a meandering search for the literary giants touched by.


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Michael Holroyd, Author . Farrar, Straus & Giroux $35 (620p) ISBN 978--374-27080-3 Holroyd's latest starts as a biography of Ellen Terry, one of the greatest actresses of the late 19th.


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Michael Holroyd has written acclaimed biographies of Ellen Terry and Henry Irving, Augustus John, George Bernard Shaw, and Lytton Strachey as well as two memoirs, Basil Street Blues, and Mosaic..


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12 May 2019 October 2017 Ancestors in the Attic by Michael Holroyd - review The revered biographer delves into the magical and peculiar lives of his own 'grimly eccentric' family 31 Oct 2017.


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Almost half a century ago, Sir Michael Holroyd, the biographer of George Bernard Shaw and Lytton Strachey, abandoned plans to publish an account of his early life because it had offended his.


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Robert Lescher, vice president of Holt, Rinehart & Winston, contracted English biographer Michael Holroyd around 1961 to write a biography of Lytton Strachey. Over the next six years, it became a two-volume release. Lescher helped Holroyd secure grant funding for his work from the Saxton and Bollingen Foundations.


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Personal life Holroyd is married to the author Margaret Drabble . Awards 1968— Yorkshire Post Book Award (Book of the Year): Lytton Strachey: A Critical Biography 1988—Irish Life Arts Award 1989— CBE 1995— Prix du Meilleur Livre Etranger (France) 2001— Heywood Hill Literary Prize 2003— Golden PEN Award [8] 2005— David Cohen British Literature Prize


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Michael Holroyd is the author of acclaimed biographies of George Bernard Shaw, the painter Augustus John, Lytton Strachey, and Ellen Terry and Henry Irving, as well as two memoirs, Basil Street Blues and Mosaic.