author
Leonard Woolf
1880–1969
A key figure in Bloomsbury, he was a novelist, political thinker, publisher, and lifelong advocate of democratic socialism. His work ranged from colonial fiction to international politics, while Hogarth Press—founded with Virginia Woolf—helped shape modernist literature.
3 Audiobooks
Two Stories
by Virginia Woolf, Leonard Woolf
The village in the jungle
by Leonard Woolf
Stories of the East
by Leonard Woolf
About the author
Born in London in 1880, Leonard Sidney Woolf studied at Trinity College, Cambridge, where he joined the intellectual circle that would become associated with the Bloomsbury Group. From 1904 to 1911, he served as a civil servant in Ceylon, now Sri Lanka; the experience later informed his novel The Village in the Jungle (1913). He married Virginia Stephen in 1912.
In 1917, Leonard and Virginia Woolf founded the Hogarth Press, publishing her work along with writing by other modernist authors. Leonard also built a substantial career as a political writer, editor, and Labour Party activist, contributing to debates on democratic socialism, international cooperation, and the League of Nations. His books included The Wise Virgins, political studies, and a five-volume autobiography published between 1960 and 1969.