Lytton Strachey

Lytton Strachey
A study of Strachey's face and hands by Carrington
Born	Giles Lytton Strachey (1880-03-01)1 March 1880 London, England
Died	21 January 1932(1932-01-21) (aged 51) Ham, Wiltshire, England
Occupation	Author, critic
Alma mater	University of Liverpool Trinity College, Cambridge
Parents	Sir Richard Strachey Jane Grant

Giles Lytton Strachey (/ˈdʒaɪlz ˈlɪtən ˈstreɪtʃi/;^[1] 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.