Giles Lytton Strachey, known as Lytton Strachey, was a distinguished British biographer and a leading figure in the Bloomsbury Group— a circle of intellectuals, writers, and artists that included Virginia Woolf and E.M. Forster. Born on March 1, 1880, in London, Strachey pursued his education at University College, Liverpool, and later at Trinity College, Cambridge, where he studied literature and...