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Book of Secrets (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9781250007667)
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Michael Holroyd
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xA Time Top Ten Nonfiction Book of 2011
A Seattle Times Best Book of 2011
Also on the margins is the elusive biographer, who on occasion turns an appraising eye upon himself as part of his investigations in the maze of biography.
Author: Michael Holroyd
ISBN-10: 1250007666
ISBN-13: 9781250007667
Publisher: Picador USA
Language: English
Published: 08/07/2012
Pages: 288
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.59lbs
Size: 8.24h x 5.56w x 0.77d
Review Citation(s):
New York Times Book Review 09/02/2012 pg. 24
By Michael Holroyd
xMichael 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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