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Besides the Lives of Augustus John, Bernard Shaw and Lytton Strachey (which was filmed as Carrington), Michael Holroyd has written two volumes of memoirs, Basil Street Blues and Mosaic. He is the current president of the Royal Society of Literature and the only non-fiction writer to have been awarded the British Literature Prize. He lives in London and Somerset with his wife, the novelist Margaret Drabble.
Holroyd has a wonderful eye for detail...an entirely captivating biography...one of the glories of the form Guardian It has all the tumbling narrative, spicy detail and easy empathy that determine his midas touch... shows Holroyd yet again pushing the biographer's art to new imaginative planes Financial Times Magnificent - not just as a fascinating exercise in group biography, but as a masterpiece of comic writing...such joie de vivre New Statesman This is a fabulous cavalcade of a book, written with infectious verve and deep imaginative sympathy ... a joy to read -- John Carey Sunday Times All theatre enthusiasts are indebted to Henry Irving and Ellen Terry: and now also to Michael Holroyd for bringing their families back to dazzling life -- Sir Ian McKellan
