Michael Holroyd

Sir Michael De Courcy Fraser Holroyd, CBE ( born August 27, 1935) is an English biographer.

Life

Holroyd attended Eton College, and in the sixties he started his career as a biographer. Above all, his two -volume work on Lytton Strachey was hailed as groundbreaking and was the basis for the 1995 released movie Carrington. These were followed by biographies of Augustus John, George Bernard Shaw, Ellen Terry and Henry Irving. He also published his own memoirs.

In addition, Holroyd was an executive with various literary organizations and societies, such as 1985 to 1988 the British PEN Centre. He is a Fellow, Companion of Literature and president emeritus of the Royal Society of Literature.

Holroyd is married to Margaret Drabble and lives in London and Somerset.

Works (selection)

  • Hugh Kingsmill. A Critical Biography. 2nd edition, Heinemann, London 1971.
  • Augustus John. A Biography. Hutchinson, London, 1997, ISBN 0-09-933301-5 (2 volumes).
  • Bernard Shaw, wizard of reason. a biography ( " Bernard Shaw "). Suhrkamp, Frankfurt / M. 1995, ISBN 3-518-40722-8.
  • Carrington. A love of Lytton Strachey ( " Lytton Strachey. The New Biography" ). Rowohlt, Reinbek 1995, ISBN 3-499-13669-4.
  • Basil Street Blues. Little, Brown, London 1999, ISBN 0-316-64815-9.
  • Works on Paper. The Craft of Biography and Autobiography. Little, Brown, London 2002, ISBN 0-316-85678-9.
  • Mosaic. Portraits in fragments. Little, Brown, London 2004, ISBN 0-316-72505-6.
  • A Strange Eventful History. The Dramatic Lives of Ellen Terry, Henry Irving and Their Remarkable Families. Vintage Books, London 2009, ISBN 978-0-099-49718-9.

Films

  • Christopher Hampton (director): Carrington. Love until death. 1985 ( after the eponymous biography).
  • Chris Hunt (director) George Bernard Shaw. His life tells Michael Holroyd. 1989 ( after the eponymous biography).
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