Holroyd, Michael

London. 1988. Chatto & Windus. 1st British Edition. Very Good in Dustjacket . 0701133325. 496 pages. hardcover. . keywords: Biography England Literature. FROM THE PUBLISHER - In The Search for Love biographer Michael Holroyd takes Shaw from his birth in 1856, through a series of poignant and tantalizing love affairs, to his marriage in 1898. Holroyd counterpoints the private and public Shaw with humor, compassion and originality. Listening to the subtle mind behind Shaw's laughter and divesting Shaw of his pantomime clothing, he reveals the man who orphaned himself from his parents to become the child of his own writings. Michael Holroyd was born in London, the son of Basil de Courcy Fraser Holroyd and his wife, Ulla Knutsson-Hall. He was educated at Eton College, though he has often claimed Maidenhead Public Library as his alma mater. In 1964 he published his first book, a biography of writer Hugh Kingsmill, but his reputation was consolidated in 1967-68 with the publication of his life of Lytton Strachey (which playwright Christopher Hampton later used extensively when writing the screenplay for the 1995 film Carrington). Holroyd has also written biographies of Augustus John and, in four volumes, of George Bernard Shaw. inventory #12561 ISBN: 0701133325.