Book
Bernard Shaw / Michael Holroyd.
Record details
- ISBN: 0394575539 (v. 2)
- ISBN: 0394575547 (v. 3) :
- ISBN: 0394525779 (v. 1) :
- ISBN: 067941987X (v. 4) :
- Physical Description: 4 v. : ill.
- Publisher: London : Chatto and Windus, c1988-c1992.
Content descriptions
| General Note: | Some ill. on lining papers. |
| Bibliography, etc. Note: | Includes bibliographical references and indexes. |
| Formatted Contents Note: | v. 1. 1856-1898, the search for love -- v. 2. 1898-1918, the pursuit of power-- v. 3. 1918-1950, the lure of fantasy-- v. 4. 1950-1991, the last laugh. |
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| Subject: | Shaw, Bernard, 1856-1950 > Biography. Dramatists, Irish > 20th century > Biography. |
Michael Holroyd was born in 1935 and is part Irish and half Swedish. He is the author of acclaimed biographies of Hugh Kingsmill, Lytton Strachey, and Augustus John. (The film Carrington, directed by Christopher Hampton, was based on his Lytton Strachey, and a film based on Augustus John is in preparation.) His four- volume biography of Shaw was originally published between 1988 and 1992, after fifteen years of research and writing. Holroyd was awarded the CBE in 1989. He lives in London and Somerset and is married to the writer Margaret Drabble.
