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Also Known As Sir Michael de Courcy Fraser Holroyd
Born August 27, 1935 (age 89) • London • England
Notable Works “Bernard Shaw” • “Lytton Strachey: A Critical Biography”
Notable Family Members spouse Margaret Drabble
Penelope Fitzgerald
British author
Novelist Muriel Spark
Muriel Spark
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John Wain
British critic and writer
V.S. Pritchett
British writer
Sidney Colvin
English scholar
Winston Churchill
Winston Churchill
prime minister of United Kingdom
Virginia Woolf
Virginia Woolf
British writer
James Boswell.
James Boswell
Scottish biographer
Southey, detail of a pencil and watercolour portrait by R. Hancock, 1796; in the National Portrait Gallery, London
Robert Southey
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Andrew Motion
British poet and author
Novelist Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell
Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell
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Sir Isaiah Berlin
British historian
A.L. Rowse
British historian and writer
Sir Angus Wilson
British author
Sir Leslie Stephen
British critic
Peter Ackroyd
British author, biographer, critic and scholar
Evelyn Waugh, photograph by Mark Gerson, 1964.
Evelyn Waugh
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Harriet Martineau, detail of an engraving
Harriet Martineau
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Sir Harold Nicolson
British diplomat and author
John Toland
Irish-born British author