Leonard Woolf

Leonard Woolf(1880-1969) was a noted political historian, autobiographer, novelist, civil servant, and a member of the Bloomsbury Group. In 1912 he married Virginia Stephen, and together the couple founded The Hogarth Press. Among his most important writings areAfter the Deluge(1931-51), a multivolume modern political and social history, and his five-volume autobiography (1960-69), which begins withSowing.Victoria Glendinningis the award-winning author ofAnthony TrollopeandVita: The Life of Vita Sackville-West, which both won the Whitbread biography award, as well asElizabeth Bowen,Edith Sitwell,Rebecca West,Jonathan Swift, and, most recently,Leonard Woolf: A Biography.