Michael Holroyd (born August 27, 1935) is a biographer, born in London and educated at Eton College. From 1985 to 1988 he was the president of the English branch of PEN. He is married to the author Margaret Drabble. Awards include the 2001 Heywood Hill Literary Prize and the 2005 David Cohen British Literature Prize. August 27 is the 239th day of the year in the Gregorian Calendar (240th in leap years), with 126 days remaining. ... 1935 was a common year starting on Tuesday (link will take you to calendar). ... This is an article on biographies. ... The clock tower of the Palace of Westminster, which contains Big Ben London is the capital city of the United Kingdom and of England. ... The Kings College of Our Lady of Eton beside Windsor, commonly known as Eton College or just Eton, is a public school (that is, an independent, fee-charging secondary school) for boys. ... 1985 is a common year starting on Tuesday of the Gregorian calendar. ... 1988 is a leap year starting on a Friday of the Gregorian calendar. ... International PEN, the worldwide association of writers, was founded in 1921 to promote friendship and intellectual co-operation among writers everywhere; to emphasise the role of literature in the development of mutual understanding and world culture; to fight for freedom of expression; and to act as a powerful voice on... Margaret Drabble (born June 5, 1939) is an English novelist. ...
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BiographerMichaelHolroyd was born in 1935 and was educated at Eton College.
MichaelHolroyd 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.
MichaelHolroyd'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.
MichaelHolroyd 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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