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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
Jul 7, 2023 · In a rare joint conversation recorded onstage in Montreal in 2001, popular novelist Margaret Drabble and her husband, the influential biographer Michael Holroyd, spoke to Eleanor Wachtel...
Michael Holroyd. , The Art of Biography No. 3. 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 beside that vivid front door and saw a stack of books ...
spouse Margaret Drabble. 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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Aug 21, 2009 · Alison Flood. Fri 21 Aug 2009 14.30 EDT. Forty-two years after his wife Margaret Drabble won the James Tait Black Memorial award, Michael Holroyd has followed in her footsteps and landed the...
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Aug 12, 2017 · There were several invitations to men-only supper parties. The fact is that I have chosen subjects that were very different from me – escaping from myself has been my aim as a writer. I write in ...
He is married to the novelist Margaret Drabble and lives in London and Somerset. Basil Street Blues, a volume of memoir, was published in 1999. In 2001 he was awarded the Heywood Hill Literary Prize. Works on Paper: The Craft of Biography and Autobiography (2002) is a collection of essays and articles about biography and literature.
