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...
Series
Books
Bernard Shaw, Vol. 2
1989
Bernard Shaw
Volume 3: Lure
1991
On Wheels
2012
God's Fifth Column
A Biography of the Age, 1890-1940
1981
A Book of Secrets
Illegitimate Daughters, Absent Fathers
2010
Bernard Shaw
The New Biography
1991
A Strange Eventful History
The Dramatic Lives of Ellen Terry, Henry Irving, and Their Remarkable Families
2008
Bernard Shaw, Volume 1
1988
Mosaic
2004
The Good Bohemian
The Letters of Ida John
2017
A Dog's Life
1969
Shorter Strachey
1980
Works on Paper
The Craft of Biography and Autobiography
2002
Bernard Shaw, Vol. 4
The Last Laugh, 1950-91
1992
Augustus John
The New Biography
1975
Lytton Strachey
The New Biography
1994
Basil Street Blues
1999
