Basil Street Blues (Magill’s Literary Annual 1991-2005)
At a glance:
- Author: Michael Holroyd
- First Published: 2000
- Type of Work: Memoirs
- Time of Work: Twentieth century
- Setting: London and southern England
- Principal Characters: Michael Holroyd, Basil Holroyd, Ulla Holroyd
- Genres: Nonfiction, Memoir
- Subjects: Family or family life, Mothers, Parents and children, Twentieth century, Authors or writers, Fathers, London, Biography, England
- Locales: England, London, England
Michael Holroyd has been called the most accomplished biographer of his generation. Although he has worked in other genres, Holroyd has built a career as a writer of biographies.
He was initially attracted to the lives of other biographers. He began inauspiciously by writing the life of a forgotten biographer in Hugh Kingsmill: A Critical Biography (1964). He hit pay dirt with Lytton Strachey: A Critical Biography (1968). This two-volume treatment of Strachey, himself a popular biographer, helped fan the fire of the revival of interest in Bloomsbury in the 1970’s....
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