Bernard Shaw: The Concluding Volume - The Lure of Fantasy 1918-1950 & The Last Laugh, An Epilogue

by Michael Holroyd

Book by Holroyd, Michael

635 pages, Paperback

First published August 24, 1993

About the author

Michael Holroyd is the author of acclaimed biographies of George Bernard Shaw, the painter Augustus John, Lytton Strachey, and Ellen Terry and Henry Irving, as well as two memoirs, Basil Street Blues and Mosaic. Knighted for his services to literature, he is the president emeritus of the Royal Society of Literature and the only nonfiction writer to have been awarded the David Cohen British Prize for Literature. His previous book, A Strange Eventful History, won the James Tait Black Memorial Prize for biography in 2009. He lives in London with his wife, the novelist Margaret Drabble.

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