Michael Holroyd, Author . Counterpoint $27 (336p) ISBN 978-1-58243-150-5
Authors and celebrities have often derided the biographer's craft as downright parasitic. Rebecca West painted an image of biographers picnicking round the tombstones of the newly dead, "sucking the bones clean and flinging them over their...
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Michael Holroyd, Author . Norton $24.95 (304p) ISBN 978-0-393-05273-2
In 1999, British biographer Holroyd (Lytton Strachey
, Bernard Shaw
) published his memoir Basil Street Blues
, and devoted readers wrote him letters with testimonies and memories that both enhanced and contradicted the careful family history he'
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Michael Holroyd, Author . Farrar, Straus & Giroux $35 (620p) ISBN 978-0-374-27080-3
Holroyd's latest starts as a biography of Ellen Terry, one of the greatest actresses of the late 19th century—until it reaches the beginning of her professional and personal involvement with the even more legendary Henry Irving. The story
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Michael Holroyd, Author Random House (NY) $24.95 (4p) ISBN 978-0-394-52577-8
Hyperactive art and music critic, Fabian socialist, bicyclist, subversive open-air lecturer, vegetarian, expert on boxing, failed novelist: Shaw led a multifaceted existence during his first 22 years in London. Holroyd, biographer of Lytton Strachey
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Michael Holroyd, Author Random House (NY) $24.95 (4p) ISBN 978-0-394-57553-7
Holroyd begins the second volume of his massive biography with Shaw's mariage blanc to Irish heiress Charlotte Payne-Townsend. These years, which saw the composition and increasing popularity of Caesar and Cleopatra , Man and Superman , Major...
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Michael Holroyd, Author Farrar Straus Giroux $35 (0p) ISBN 978-0-374-19439-0
Holroyd's big, gossipy life of English historian Lytton Strachey (1880-1932), first published in 1968 and now in a revised, expanded edition, offers a vibrant, intimate portrait of the Bloomsbury circle, their love affairs, jealousies and creative...
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Michael Holroyd, Author W. W. Norton & Company $24.95 (306p) ISBN 978-0-393-04850-6
Affectionate and wry, Holroyd's memoir of his dysfunctional family contrasts sharply with his lives of Lytton Strachey, Augustus John and Bernard Shaw, which have earned him a major reputation as a biographer. His parents, grandparents, aunts and...
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Michael Holroyd. Farrar, Straus and Giroux, $26 (272p) ISBN 978-0-374-11558-6
Master raconteur and biographer of Bernard Shaw and Lytton Strachey, the always elegant Holroyd is at the top of his game in the final installment of a trilogy (after Basil Street Blues and Mosaic)—sadly for the world of publishing, he says it is...
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Edited by Rebecca John and Michael Holroyd. Bloomsbury, $35 (352p) ISBN 978-1-4088-7362-5
Through the letters of Ida John (1877–1907), editors Holroyd (On Wheels) and John, Ida’s granddaughter, offer a fascinating glimpse into the domestic world of an avant-garde family and a compelling portrait of a woman who gave up her career and bore
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Michael Holroyd, Author, LuAnn Walther, Editor Vintage Books USA $15.95 (3p) ISBN 978-0-679-72505-3
``Holroyd, biographer of Lytton Strachey and Augustus John, produces here a biography of the highest order--generous, poised, utterly fascinating, Shavian in its unmasking of Shaw's deceits, attuned to G.B.S.'s complexity,'' praised PW , stating: ``T
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Michael Holroyd, Author, LuAnn Walther, Editor Vintage Books USA $16 (3p) ISBN 978-0-679-73132-0
This massive biography, arranged thematically rather than chronologically, discusses Shaw's mariage blanc ; his love affairs via correspondence; the composition and popularity of his plays, including The Doctor's Dilemma and Pygmalion ; and his...
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Michael Holroyd, Author, J. M. Fox, Editor Random House (NY) $30 (4p) ISBN 978-0-394-57554-4
Shaw (1856-1950), long a socialist, in his later years built castles in air. Initially discounting the dangers of fascism, he championed Mussolini in the 1920s and idolized men of action, whether the Italian despot or heavyweight boxer Gene Tunney....
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