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Leonard Woolf

AKA Leonard Sidney Woolf

Born: 25-Nov-1880
Birthplace: London, England
Died: 14-Aug-1969
Location of death: Rodmell, Sussex, England
Cause of death: unspecified
Remains: Cremated (ashes scattered)

Gender: Male
Race or Ethnicity: White
Occupation: Author

Nationality: England
Executive summary: British memoirist, husband of Virginia

Father: Solomon Rees Sydney Woolf
Mother: Marie de Jongh
Wife: Virginia Woolf (novelist, m. 10-Aug-1912)
Mistress: Trekkie (painter/illustrator, married, affair starting WWII, for 25 years)

    High School: St. Paul's School, London (1894-99)
    University: BA, Trinity College, Cambridge University (1902)

    Fabian Society 1916

Author of books:
The Village in the Jungle (1913, novel)
The Wise Virgins (1914, novel)
Stories of the East (1916, short stories)
International Government (1916, nonfiction)
Imperialism and Civilization (1928, nonfiction)
After the Deluge (1931-39, nonfiction, 2 vols.)
Quack, Quack (1935)
Barbarians at the Gate (1939)
The War for Peace (1940)
Principia Politica (1953, nonfiction)
Sowing (1960, memoir)
Growing (1961, memoir)
Beginning Again (1964, memoir)
Downhill All the Way (1967, memoir)
The Journey Not the Arrival Matters (1969, memoir)


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