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Michael Holroyd

4/5 ( ratings)

Born: August 26 1935

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. Knighted for his services to literature, he is the president emeritus of the Royal Society of Literature and the only nonfiction writer to have been awarded the David Cohen British Prize for Literature. His previous book, A Strange Eventful History, won the James Tait Black Memorial Prize for biography in 2009. He lives in London with his wife, the novelist Margaret Drabble.

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Michael Holroyd

4/5 ( ratings)

Born: August 26 1935

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. Knighted for his services to literature, he is the president emeritus of the Royal Society of Literature and the only nonfiction writer to have been awarded the David Cohen British Prize for Literature. His previous book, A Strange Eventful History, won the James Tait Black Memorial Prize for biography in 2009. He lives in London with his wife, the novelist Margaret Drabble.

http://us.macmillan.com/author/michae...

Books from Michael Holroyd

A Book of Secrets: Illegitimate Daughters, Absent Fathers

2.9/5 ( ratings)

Lytton Strachey: The New Biography

4.2/5 ( ratings)

Basil Street Blues: A Memoir

3.6/5 ( ratings)

A Strange Eventful History: The Dramatic Lives of Ellen Terry, Henry Irving and their Remarkable Families

3.6/5 ( ratings)

Augustus John: The New Biography

Bernard Shaw: The One-Volume Definitive Edition

4.1/5 ( ratings)

Bernard Shaw, Volume 1: The Search for Love, 1856-98

3.6/5 ( ratings)

On Wheels

3.2/5 ( ratings)

The Last Colonial

4.1/5 ( ratings)

Bernard Shaw, Vol. 2: The Pursuit of Power, 1898-1918

3.8/5 ( ratings)

Lytton Strachey by Himself: A Self-Portrait

3.6/5 ( ratings)

Dizzy: A Life Of Benjamin Disreali

4.2/5 ( ratings)

The Best of Hugh Kingsmill

4.2/5 ( ratings)

A Month in the Country

4.2/5 ( ratings)

The Butcher of Poland: Hitler's Lawyer Hans Frank

4.2/5 ( ratings)

Mosaic: A Family Memoir Revisited

4.2/5 ( ratings)

A Dog's Life

4.2/5 ( ratings)

Facts and Fiction: A Book of Storytelling

4.2/5 ( ratings)

The Art of Augustus John

4.2/5 ( ratings)

The Shaw Companion (Bernard Shaw, Vols. 4-5)

4.2/5 ( ratings)