Sir Michael Holroyd CBE FRHistS FRSL is the author of celebrated biographies of Lytton Strachey, Augustus John, Bernard Shaw, Ellen Terry, and others. His awards include the James Tait Black Memorial Prize for Biography, the David Cohen British Literature Prize, the Golden PEN award, the Heywood Hill Literary Prize, the French Prix du Meilleur Livre Etranger, the Irish Life Arts Award and the Yorkshire Post Book of the Year Award. His two memoirs, Basil Street Blues and Mosaic, have been widely praised. Michael Holroyd lives in London, W10.
"Offered almost as religious texts, one is a beautifully pressed
collection of ferns made by his great-grandmother in India in the
mid-19th century; the second is a series of photographs of
silent-movie stars gathered by his aunt Yolanda in the 1920s.
Through these images Holroyd unravels the lives, tragic and comic,
behind these strangely magical and peculiar assemblies."
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