Bernard Shaw by Michael Holroyd

Michael Holroyd was born in 1935 and is half-Swedish and partly Irish. Recognised as one of the greatest biographers of our time, he is the author of acclaimed biographies of Hugh Kingsmill, Lytton Strachey, Augustus John, and Shaw. He was awarded the CBE in 1989. Born in London, he now lives in London and Somerset and is married to author Margaret Drabble.

Michael Holroyd's magnificent biography of Bernard Shaw is now available in a lively and accessible one-volume abridgment by the author. Covering almost a century, from 1856 to 1950, Holroyd magically captures the essence of Shaw's genius in a tragicomedy that is constantly absorbing, surprising, funny, and moving.