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2 unusual facts about Michael Holroyd


George Sowley Holroyd

British author Sir Michael Holroyd is Sir George's direct descendant, through his son, George Chaplin Holroyd (1790-1871).

Michael Holroyd

His latest book, A Book of Secrets: Illegitimate Daughters, Absent Fathers (2010), concerns the Villa Cimbrone on the Gulf of Salerno and the Edwardian literary and society figures who lived there such as Ernest Beckett, 2nd Baron Grimthorpe.


Alan Gibbons

In December 2010 he organised an 1100 signature Open Letter on library closures signed by many well-known figures in the arts, literature, media and publishing such as Philip Pullman, Kate Mosse, Kathy Lette, Francis Wheen, Joan Bakewell, Lee Child, Sarah Waters, Carol Ann Duffy, Michael Holroyd, Michael Rosen, Jackie Kay, Terry Jones, and many more.


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