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Holroyd is a patron of Dignity in Dying. Personal life. Holroyd is married to the author Margaret Drabble. Awards. 1968—Yorkshire Post Book Award (Book of the Year): Lytton Strachey: A Critical Biography; 1988—Irish Life Arts Award; 1989—CBE; 1995—Prix du Meilleur Livre Etranger (France) 2001—Heywood Hill Literary Prize
Michael Holroyd (born August 27, 1935, London, England) is a British writer and editor best known for his meticulous, scholarly biographies of Lytton Strachey, Augustus John, and George Bernard Shaw. After graduating from Eton College, Holroyd worked at a law firm for two years before joining the army.
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Learn about the life and works of Michael Holroyd, one of Britain's foremost literary biographers. Find out his biography, awards, critical perspective, and bibliography.
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12 de ago. de 2017 · Michael Holroyd: ‘Escaping from myself has been my aim as a writer’. The biographer on writing in bed, the enviable freedom of novelists and the bravery of Bloomsbury’s gay artists. Michael...
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26 de mai. de 2024 · Overview. Michael Holroyd. (b. 1935) Quick Reference. (1935– ), author and biographer, born in London.
Michael Holroyd. , The Art of Biography No. 3. Interviewed by Lisa Cohen. Issue 205, Summer 2013. Holroyd, ca. 1965. In an e-mail giving directions to his house, Michael Holroyd joked, “To help you I have arranged to have the front door painted red.”. In fact, I knew I had reached the right house when I looked through the narrow window ...
14 de out. de 2017 · In his biographical writing, Holroyd is an artist on oath who re-creates a story based on the facts of a life or lives. Holroyd, like Johnson, is fascinated by the detail of the everyday through which we can understand more about people and their make-up, fashioned both by themselves and others.
