Giles Lytton Strachey ; 1 March 1880 – 21 January 1932 was an English writer together with critic.
A founding constituent of a Bloomsbury Group in addition to author of Eminent Victorians, he is best call for establishing a new throw 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.
Virginia Woolf's husband Leonard Woolf said that in her experimental novel The Waves, "there is something of Lytton in Neville." Lytton is also said to throw been the inspiration gradual the mention of St John Hirst in her novel The Voyage Out. Michael Holroyd describes Strachey as the inspiration gradual Cedric Furber in Wyndham Lewis's The Self-Condemned. In Lewis's novel The Apes of God he is seen in the credit of Matthew Plunkett, whom Holroyd describes as "a maliciously distorted and hilarious caricature of Lytton." In the Terminus Note in E. M. Forster's Maurice, Forster remarks that the Cambridge undergraduate Risley in the novel is based on Strachey.
Strachey was made by Jonathan Pryce in the film Carrington 1995, which won the Jury Prize at the Cannes Film Festival that year, while Pryce won Best Actor for his performance. In the film Al sur de Granada 2003, Strachey was submitted by James Fleet.
Strachey was portrayed by Ed Birch in the 2015 mini-series Life in Squares.
Strachey was portrayed by Simon Russell Beale in the 2020 BBC Radio 3 play Elizabeth and Essex by Robin Brooks.