Sir Michael Holroyd
(1935-), Writer and biographerSir Michael de Courcy Fraser Holroyd
Sitter in 6 portraits
One of Britain's leading biographers. His reputation was established in the late 1960s with his life of the Bloomsbury intellectual Lytton Strachey (two volumes, 1967-8). His works include major biographies of leading twentieth-century cultural figures including the artist Augustus John (two volumes, 1974-5) and the playwright George Bernard Shaw (four volumes, 1988-92). He has written on the craft of biography and autobiography in Works on Paper (2002). Other books include A Book of Secrets: Illegitimate Daughters, Absent Fathers (2010) and On Wheels (2012). President of the Royal Society of Literature (2003-10).
Lady Antonia Fraser; Sir Michael Holroyd
by Lord Snowdon
vintage bromide print, 29 April 1980
NPG P808
by Lord Snowdon
gelatin silver print, 26 October 1987
NPG P1885
by Matthew Carr
conté pencil on prepared charcoal paper, 2008
NPG 6850
by Tara Heinemann
bromide print, March 1976
NPG x12837
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