Lytton Strachey
1880
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1932
photo credits: Wikimedia Commons
movement: Bloomsbury Group
country of citizenship: United Kingdom
languages spoken, written or signed: English
educated at: Trinity College, University of Liverpool, Abbotsholme School
occupation: poet, painter, writer, literary critic, biographer
award received: James Tait Black Memorial Prize
Giles Lytton Strachey (; 1 March 1880 – 21 January 1932) was an English writer and critic. A founding member of the Bloomsbury Group and author of Eminent Victorians, he established a new form of biography in which psychological insight and sympathy are combined with irreverence and wit. His biography Queen Victoria (1921) was awarded the James Tait Black Memorial Prize. Source: Wikipedia (en)
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