Michael Holroyd
Besides the Lives of Augustus John, Bernard Shaw and Lytton Strachey (which was filmed as Carrington), Michael Holroyd has written two volumes of memoirs, Basil Street Blues and Mosaic. His most recent book, A Strange Eventful History, winner of the James Tait Black Prize for Biography, was a biography of theatre greats Ellen Terry and Henry Irving and their children. He has been president of the Royal Society of Literature and is the first non-fiction writer to have been awarded the British Literature Prize. He lives in London and Somerset with his wife, the novelist Margaret Drabble.
Books by Michael Holroyd
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On Wheels
by Michael HolroydPublished: 15/11/2012
Wry, perceptive and very funny, an elegy to the glamour of the car from the celebrated biographer
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A Book of Secrets: Illegitimate Daughters, Absent Fathers
by Michael HolroydPublished: 02/01/2012
A masterfully atmospheric book of hidden lives and family secrets from the celebrated biographer
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Basil Street Blues and Mosaic
by Michael HolroydPublished: 03/01/2011
This enchanting collection by James Tait Black Award winning biographer Michael Holroyd contains his two volumes of memoir - Basil Street Blues and Mosaic
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A Strange Eventful History: The Dramatic Lives of Ellen Terry, Henry Irving and their Remarkable Fam
by Michael HolroydPublished: 15/09/2009
A major literary event from ‘one of the greatest biographers of our age’
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Bernard Shaw: 1 Volume The One-Volume Definitive Edition
by Michael HolroydPublished: 26/09/1997
Michael Holroyd's magisterial biography now available for the first time in a brilliant, lively and accessible one-volume abridgement by the author - revealing the potential bestseller within the multi-volume life.
