Lytton Strachey: A Critical Biography (1-2)

by Michael Holroyd

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This was the first biography by Michael Holroyd that I read and it was a great introduction to both the subject and the biographer. I remember how easily I digested the long (two volumes in the original edition) biography because the life was both intensely interesting and well-written.
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Michael Holroyd was born in London, England on August 27, 1935. He was educated at Eton College. He published his first book, a biography of writer Hugh Kingsmill, in 1964. He has also written the biographies of George Bernard Shaw, Augustus John, Lytton Strachey, and Ellen Terry and Henry Irving. His other works include Basil Street Blues, show more Mosaic, and A Book of Secrets: Illegitimate Daughters, Absent Fathers. He has received several awards including the Heywood Hill Literary Prize in 2001, the David Cohen British Prize for Literature in 2005, and the James Tait Black Memorial Prize for biography for A Strange Eventful History in 2009. He was knighted for his services to literature in 2007. (Bowker Author Biography) Michael Holroyd has written acclaimed biographies of Lytton Strachey, Augustus John, & Bernard Shaw. He lives in London & Somerset, England. (Publisher Provided) show less

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Lytton Strachey: A Critical Biography (1-2) (1-2)
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Lytton Strachey

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Biography & Memoir, Literature Studies and Criticism, Fiction and Literature
DDC/MDS
828.9Literature & rhetoricEnglish & Old English literaturesEnglish miscellaneous writingsEnglish miscellaneous writings 1900-
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PR6037 .T73 .Z69Language and LiteratureEnglishEnglish Literature1900-1960

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