name: Lytton Strachey
birth_date: 1880-03-01 00:00:00
death_date: 1932-01-21 00:00:00
genres: Nonfiction
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about: Giles Lytton Strachey was a British writer and critic. He is best known for establishing a new form of biography in which psychological insight and sympathy are combined with irreverence and wit. His 1921 biography Queen Victoria was awarded the James Tait Black Memorial Prize.