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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. 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...
Illegitimate Daughters, Absent Fathers
2010
1969
The Dramatic Lives of Ellen Terry, Henry Irving, and Their Remarkable Families
2008
The New Biography
1975
a biography, volume II: the years of experience
1975
1999
Volume 3: Lure
1991
The New Biography
1991
1989
The Last Laugh, 1950-91
1992
1988
A Biography of the Age, 1890-1940
1981
The New Biography
1994
2004
2012
1980
The Letters of Ida John
2017
The Craft of Biography and Autobiography
2002