Lytton Strachey: The New Biography by Michael Holroyd
It is impossible to suppose that this 'Life' will ever be superseded . . . the best literary biography to appear for many years.-John Rothenstein, New York Times Written with vivacity and scrupulousness. . . . [Michael Holroyd] has a great novelist's sense of the obstinate mystery of the human person.-George Steiner, The New Yorker