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	Michael Holroyd
		Biographer Michael Holroyd was born in 1935 and was educated at Eton College.
		Michael Holroyd is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature and holds honorary degrees from the universities of Ulster, Sheffield, Warwick, East Anglia and the London School of Economics.
		Holroyd's own contribution to the development of the biographical art comes partly through having beaten back the frontiers of reticence to reveal his subjects' emotional and especially sexual involvements.
	www.contemporarywriters.com /authors/?p=auth49 (1757 words)

	The Eminent Bloomsberry - New York Times
		Michael Holroyd's "Lytton Strachey: The New Biography" is a substantially reworked version of an earlier, definitive, two-volume life of Strachey published nearly three decades ago.
		Michael Holroyd has, in his new version of "Lytton Strachey," interlarded a great deal of this new material, along with disclosures that he says he was prevented from making in the earlier biography because many of Lytton's friends and lovers were still alive.
		Holroyd notes that "it was practically impossible for Ralph to turn his back on such a modest appeal, so diffidently -- so effectively -- expressed," and implies that circumstances were to some degree improved by their subsequent discussion.
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	Salon Reviews \| "Basil Street Blues: A Memoir" by Michael Holroyd (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-12)
		Michael Holroyd's massive four-volume biography of Bernard Shaw was published between 1988 and 1992; following his equally distinguished lives of Lytton Strachey and the painter Augustus John, it confirmed his reputation as the consummate British biographer, seamlessly weaving narrative from the utterances of his subjects.
		Holroyd calls "Basil Street Blues" a "vicarious autobiography." Starting with his parents and tracing his family back into the 19th century, he tries to explain who he is by turning the biographer's art on his own people.
		Michael's Scottish great-grandmother's death certificate reports "suicide by carbolic acid." The family fortune was founded on shares in the Rajmai Tea Co., a legacy of his great-grandfather's career in India.
	archive.salon.com /books/review/2000/03/02/holroyd/print.html (846 words)

	Michael Holroyd Books - Signed, used, new, out-of-print
		Michael Holroyd's magnificent biography of Bernard Shaw is now available in a lively and accessible one-volume abridgment by the author.
		Novelist and biographer Holroyd tells the story of his family's life from their glory days as officers in colonial India and wealthy tea-plantation owners to shabbier times, when Holroyd's parents divorced and managed to squander what little family money was left.
		Holroyd pieces together several remarkable stories to create a wry, touching mosaic of his family, including the murder of his fearsome headmaster and the discovery that his Swedish grandmother was the mistress of a French anarchist.
	www.alibris.com /search/books/author/Michael_Holroyd (864 words)

	Arts Council England : Press release detail
		In his acceptance speech, Michael Holroyd said: “I believe that, in choosing me, the judges have recognised the place that, after a long struggle, biography and its sibling subtext autobiography have attained in contemporary literature.
		The biographer Michael Holroyd was born in 1935 and educated at Eton College.
		Michael Holroyd is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature and holds honorary degrees from the universities of Ulster, Sheffield, Warwick, East Anglia and the London School of Economics.
	www.artscouncil.org.uk /pressnews/press_detail.php?browse=recent&id=432 (1023 words)

	Hesketh Pearson Papers, Biographical Sketch
		Michael Holroyd, Pearson's heir and literary executor, was born in London on 27 August 1935.
		By this time Holroyd was so esteemed as a biographer that he received a record £625,000 advance for his next book, which was the four-volume Bernard Shaw (1988-1992), a project that took almost twenty years to complete and was received with unprecedented acclaim.
		Holroyd is married to the writer Margaret Drabble and lives in England.
	www.hrc.utexas.edu /research/fa/pearson.bio.html (500 words)

	The Scotsman - S2 - Life lessons (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-12)
		What fascinates isn’t usually their own lives - although Michael Holroyd’s autobiography, Basil Street Blues is an honourable exception - but the journeys they make into the past: how they track their subjects across the centuries, how they try to understand them and how - if they are completely honest - they sometimes fail.
		Holroyd is sufficiently objective enough to pay tribute to Laurence’s scholarship, even though he clearly can’t stand the man. The obsessive academic approach can derail a biography just as easily as its opposite - the fictional story that pretends to be true.
		Without Holroyd, I for one would not have known about Richard Pennington’s 1960 "fake" autobiography Peterley Harvest or The Whispering Gallery, written anonymously by the actor Hesketh Pearson in 1926 and purporting to be the memoirs of a top-ranking diplomat.
	thescotsman.scotsman.com /s2.cfm?id=39692002 (719 words)

	Amazon.ca: Lytton Strachey: Books: Michael Holroyd (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-12)
		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 ferment.
		Holroyd, biographer of G.B. Shaw, credits Strachey with revolutionizing historical biography by emphasizing character and hidden sexuality and subverting traditional forms through caricature and psychological innuendo.
		As always, master biographer Holroyd writes smoothly and with just the right amount of detail; no one will be bored--and the book's history notwithstanding, no one will be shocked by his revelations either.
	www.amazon.ca /exec/obidos/ASIN/0099332914 (1159 words)

	Books of The Times; George Bernard Shaw And the Urge to Dominate - New York Times
		Holroyd does an admirable job of giving us a lucid picture of Shaw in his maturity: waging assorted Fabian battles, romancing Stella Campbell, working with Harley Granville-Barker to revolutionize the British stage, and, of course, writing his famous middle plays (''Caesar and Cleopatra,'' ''Man and Superman,'' ''Major Barbara,'' ''Misalliance,'' ''Pygmalion'').
		Holroyd dextrously reveals the ways in which Shaw tailored specific characters for his favorite actresses, as well as the ways in which he transformed personal preoccuptions into art.
		Holroyd's sympathy for his subject, Shaw emerges from this volume as a sadly constricted human being.
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		Leggott / Holroyd Adam & Trisha Holroyd are proud to announce the safe arrival...
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		A LITTLE BROTHER FOR TYLER May Matt, Wendy and big brother Tyler...
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	Book Talk - 17/12/2005: The Letters Of Lytton Strachey...
		Michael Holroyd: I think actually a symbol of that is the fact that his letters are probably the last of the Bloomsbury group letters to be published—we’ve had Virginia Woolf, we’ve had Roger Fry and so on—but there were reasons earlier on why Lytton Strachey’s letters were not published.
		Michael Holroyd: It’s very interesting because when I first published my biography of Strachey, and this is going back to the end of the 1960s, my letters were quite antagonistic.
		Michael Holroyd: I was very interested in the letters because there are aspects of Strachey (as there are of all of us) which are not attractive these days; the regular anti-Semitism, a certain snobbishness and so on.
	www.abc.net.au /rn/arts/booktalk/stories/s1525157.htm (3151 words)

	Biographer dissects the art of biography
		While Holroyd is scrupulously fair about giving the devil -- for such is Laurence's role in this drama -- his due as a meticulous scholar, this portrait of a prickly, and on occasion obstructive, force of nature leaves little doubt as to the author's real feelings.
		Although Holroyd is a spirited defender of the craft of biography, he opens this collection with a provocative essay titled "The Case Against Biography." This is something of a subtheme in some other pieces, and in this mode, too, his wit can be biting: "Richard Holmes is inescapably a biographer: oblique, vicarious, elusive.
		Holroyd also provides a moving account of the campaign in Britain for a Public Lending Right that would pay authors a small sum each time their books are checked out of a library.
	www.sfgate.com /cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/chronicle/archive/2002/06/16/RV224126.DTL (731 words)

	Holroyd squeezes Shaw into single volume
		There are long pages where Holroyd's immersion in Shaw nourishes a prose style so polished and witty that Shaw himself would have been pleased to claim it.
		Holroyd is an ideal biographer, a gifted and subtle analyst of the human condition -- intelligent, scrupulous and wonderfully well-informed -- and if his astute interpretation of a play or essay leaves us unsatisfied, we can always check out the multivolume edition.
		Holroyd's subject was worth a third of an average life span, and so, in turn, he has done a great man justice.
	www.chron.com /cgi-bin/auth/story/content/chronicle/ae/books/9899/10/11/shaw.html (832 words)

	Strand Bookstore: Mosaic; by Michael Holroyd (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-12)
		This book is Holroyd's piecing together ofthese remarkable stories and shows the strange interconnectedness of our family lives and how other people's stories, however eccentric or extreme, echo our own dreams and experiences.
		A follow-up to Michael Holroyd's previous memoir, BASIL STREET BLUES, this volume expands on it and reveals some of the events in its aftermath (such as family reactions and fan letters).
		Mosaic is Holroyd's piecing together of these remarkable stories: the murder of the fearsome headmaster of his school; the discovery that his Swedish grandmother was the mistress of the French anarchist Jacques Prévert; and a letter about the beauty of his mother that provides a clue to a decade-long affair.
	www.strandbooks.com /profile?isbn=0393052737 (406 words)

	'Basil Street Blues': The Father and Mother of the Boy Grown Up
		Michael took quiet refuge at the town library, where he read biographies: Hesketh Pearson on Wilde and Hazlitt, Hugh Kingsmill on Dickens and Samuel Johnson.
		There are his school days at Eton (who would have thought a fresh account could still be made?), his splendidly thoughtful discussion of a biographer's ethics -- brought to ground dealing with his own family -- and his patient, wryly painful care of his parents in their declining days.
		Holroyd asked Ulla and Basil to write what they could remember of their lives, offering to pay them for "research." His mother took the money blithely; his father refused it.
	partners.nytimes.com /library/books/031400holroyd-book-review.html (1010 words)

	Amazon.com: Basil Street Blues: Books: Michael Holroyd (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-12)
		Holroyd may be a great biographer revealing the lives of the British authors, but he struggles to portray his own life which is the subject of this book.
		Holroyd, a biographer, turns his skills as a researcher and writer onto his own family, and proves that the devil really is in the details, and in the telling of the same.
		Michael Holroyd's "Basil Street Blues" is a marvelously readable memoir by the biographer of Lytton Strachey and others.
	www.amazon.com /Basil-Street-Blues-Michael-Holroyd/dp/0393048500 (1362 words)

	BBC News Online \| Entertainment \| Arts \| Literary prize awarded to Holroyd
		Biographer Michael Holroyd had been awarded the David Cohen Prize for Literature, which is worth £52,500.
		The prize is handed out biennially to a living writer in the UK and Ireland whose work merits recognition for a lifetime's achievement in literature.
		Holroyd's best-selling novel of Lytton Strachey of the Bloomsbury Group was made into the film Carrington, starring Emma Thompson.
	news.bbc.co.uk /nolpda/ukfs_news/hi/newsid_4359000/4359201.stm?(none) (255 words)

	Commentary Magazine - Bernard Shaw, by Michael Holroyd (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-12)
		Holroyd is the first author of a major Shaw biography not to have known his subject personally, and the first to have sifted through the vast mound of biographical data that researchers have piled up in the four decades since Shaw's death.
		...Holroyd, by contrast, is the first author of a major Shaw biography not to have known his subject personally, and the first to have sifted through the vast mound of biographical data that researchers have piled up in the four decades since Shaw's death...
		...But Holroyd never seeks to justify the unjustifiable, and his only real mistake is in supposing that Shaw's "fantasies of longevity and dictatorship, which in the actual world did harm to no one, brought some relief to his despair...
	www.commentarymagazine.com /Summaries/V93I2P58-1.htm (1627 words)

	The Connection.org : Biography at the Crossroads
		Michael Holroyd, an article in "The Guardian" about the art of biography
		Michael Holroyd and James Atlas on the difficulty of pleasing biographies?
		Michael Holroyd, The dead may wish to be heard listen
	www.theconnection.org /shows/2002/07/20020724_b_main.asp (240 words)

	Sting like a butterfly, buzz like a bee
		Michael Holroyd's biography of Shaw, whose life stretched from 1856 to 1950, reveals an ambiguous Shaw, the witty critic of laissez-faire capitalism and social privilege who nevertheless scorned democracy and who became the patron saint of political reformism.
		The Fabians “took socialism off the streets and sat it down in the drawing-room”, says Holroyd, where the expert, technocratic elite-in-waiting contemplated the planned society of the future, achieved by a quiet revolution of Fabian good sense.
		Be prepared to work hard, however, for any enlightenment on all this from Holroyd, a master at the gossip-column version of biography, extremely industrious in retailing every little detail of Shaw's life (with a particular obsession for Shaw's motoring tours), and above all not greatly overburdened with ideas.
	www.greenleft.org.au /back/1997/299/299p28.htm (1283 words)

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		Michael Holroyd is the distinguished British biographer of writer Lytton Strachey (whose life formed the basis of the film Carrington) as well as the painter Augustus John.
		This newly abridged one-volume edition has the virtue of cutting the documentation--which will be missed only by other scholars on Shaw--and is aimed squarely at the general reader, who will find here an entertaining survey with a wide base of interest.
		Thus the biography becomes a kind of companion to the life, discreetly pointing out features of interest, but never overly imposing Holroyd's own personality, though there are some wry observations--such as those about Shaw's estate in recent years--that indicate Holroyd's dry wit.
	www.bookhead.co.uk /0099749017.aspx (262 words)

	Mosaic (Main Page) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-12)
		After writing the definitive biographies of Lytton Strachey and George Bernard Shaw, Michael Holroyd turned his hand to a more personal subject: his own family.
		As letters from readers started to pour in, the author discovered extraordinary narratives that his own memoir had only touched on.
		Michael Holroyd has written celebrated biographies of Hugh Kingsmill, Lytton Strachey, Augustus John, and Bernard Shaw, and the acclaimed Basil Street Blues.
	www.wwnorton.com /catalog/spring04/005273.htm (196 words)

	TIME.com: Wild Man -- Sep. 29, 1975 -- Page 1
		As Michael Holroyd observes in this superb biography, "In the public imagination he was to represent the Great Artist, the Great Lover, the Great Bohemian Enjoyer of Life.
		Eight years ago, with an imposing biography of Lytton Strachey, Holroyd (now 41) became one of our best guides to the cultural life of England in the early 20th century.
		Holroyd has it all, and Augustus John is his ideal quarry.
	www.time.com /time/archive/preview/0,10987,913499,00.html (533 words)

	CBS Daytime \| As the World Turns
		Scott Holroyd joined the cast of As the World Turns on July 10, 2001 in the role of Paul Ryan, son of Barbara Ryan and the evil James Stenbeck.
		Born in Columbia, South Carolina, Holroyd received a B.A. from the University of South Carolina where he majored in Journalism and Mass Communication.
		Maura West and Michael Park share their favorite memories...
	www.cbs.com /daytime/atwt/about/bios/sholroyd.shtml (662 words)

	Michael Holroyd - Writers Talk Books - Literature Matters - Literature - British Council - Arts
		Michael Holroyd - Writers Talk Books - Literature Matters - Literature - British Council - Arts
		For those unable to sign up for their nearest creative writing course, we have put together a selection of some inspiring titles that may help aspiring writers to solve some of their creative difficulties.
		Michael Holroyd, who is president of the Royal Society of Literature, has written biographies of Lytton Strachey, Augustus John and Bernard Shaw, and two volumes of family history, Basil Street Blues and Mosaic.
	www.britishcouncil.org /de/arts-literature-matters-2-writerstalkbooks-michaelholroyd.htm (921 words)

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