Alan Hollinghurst

Alan Hollinghurst was born in 1954 in Gloucestershire, England, and attended Magdalen College, Oxford. He is the author of the novels The Swimming-Pool Library, The Folding Star (shortlisted for the Booker Prize), The Spell, The Line of Beauty, as well as of a translation of the play Bajazet by Racine. A former staff member at The Times Literary Supplement, Hollinghurst is a frequent contributor to that and other publications, including The Guardian. Hollinghurst's fourth novel, The Line of Beauty, won the Man Booker Prize in 2004. He lives in London.

From the Review

September 25, 2008: Underground Men

Netherland by Joseph O’Neill

February 14, 2008: Passion and Henry James

Henry James: The Mature Master by Sheldon M. Novick

June 14, 2007: When in Rome

Satyr Square: A Year, a Life in Rome by Leonard Barkan

March 9, 2006: Eminent Anti-Victorian

The Letters of Lytton Strachey edited by Paul Levy

August 11, 2005: Child of the Century

Quicksands: A Memoir by Sybille Bedford

March 11, 2004: On 'The Ivory Tower'

From New York Review Books

The Complete Fiction Wyndham is one of Britain's greatest living story writers, and a legendary editor. "He brings to his work an eye for the absolutely essential and a haunting sense of what lives are made up of—not the peaks and troughs...but the more elusive continuities and absences, ephemeral obsessions, a sense of permanently deferred expectation and hilarious consequences."—Interview

The Ivory Tower Beginning among the great houses and sweeping seaviews of Newport, Rhode Island, with the underhanded deals and enduring animosities of New York's financial world lurking in the background, The Ivory Tower explores the predicaments of Rosanna Gaw and Graham Fielder, heirs to two rival tycoons.