Sir Michael Holroyd, CBE, CLit's Biography
- Forename(s)
-
Michael de Courcy Fraser
- Sex
-
Male
- Decorations
-
kt (2007), CBE (1989)
- Date of Birth
-
27/8/1935
- Foretitle(s)
-
Sir
- Surname
-
HOLROYD
- Style
-
Sir Michael Holroyd, CBE, CLit
- Recreations
-
listening to music and stories, watching people dance
Sir Michael Holroyd, CBE, CLit's Professional Career
- Career
-
biographer; chm: Soc of Authors 1973-74, Nat Book League 1976-78; pres English PEN 1985-8, Royal Soc of Literature 2003- (chm 1997-2001); chm: Arts Cncl Literature Panel 1992-95, Public Lending Right Ctee 1997-2000; memb Arts Cncl of GB 1992-95; David Cohen Prize for Literature 2005, James Tait Black Meml Prize 2009; Hon DLitt: Univ of Ulster 1992, Univ of Sheffield 1993, Univ of Warwick 1993, UEA 1994, LSE 1998, Univ of Sussex 2009; CLit (FRSL 1968), FRHistS
Sir Michael Holroyd, CBE, CLit's Publications
- Books and Publications
-
Lytton Strachey (1967-68 and 1994), Augustus John (1974-75 and 1996), Bernard Shaw (1988-92 and 1997), Basil Street Blues (1999), Works on Paper (2002), Mosaic: Portraits in Fragments (2004), A Strange Eventful History (2008), A Book of Secrets (2010)
View the full entry on Debrett's
People of Today Online
