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- Michael Holroyd (born August 27, 1935, London, England) is a British writer and editor best known for his meticulous, scholarly biographies of Lytton Strachey, Augustus John, and George Bernard Shaw.
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Sir Michael de Courcy Fraser Holroyd CBE FRHistS FRSL (born 27 August 1935) is an English biographer. Early life and education.
Aug 23, 2024 · Michael Holroyd (born August 27, 1935, London, England) is a 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.
- The Editors of Encyclopaedia Britannica
A prominent campaigner for the promotion of literature, Michael Holroyd is a former Chairman of The Society of Authors (1973-4) and the National Book League (1976-8, now Booktrust) and a past President of English PEN (1985-8).
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Jul 7, 2023 · In a rare joint conversation recorded onstage in Montreal in 2001, popular novelist Margaret Drabble and her husband, the influential biographer Michael Holroyd, spoke to Eleanor Wachtel...
Michael de Courcy Fraser Holroyd was born in 1935 to an Anglo-Irish father and Swedish mother. He lived, after their divorce, with his paternal grandparents and an unmarried aunt in Maidenhead, outside London.
Jun 11, 2024 · Quick Reference. (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 interest in the art of ...
Jan 1, 2001 · 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.
