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.
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‘The Stranger’s Child’: An Exchange
January 12, 2012
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A World Cracked Open
December 9, 2010
By Nightfall
by Michael Cunningham
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Underground Men
September 25, 2008
Netherland
by Joseph O’Neill
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Passion and Henry James
February 14, 2008
Henry James: The Mature Master
by Sheldon M. Novick
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When in Rome
June 14, 2007
Satyr Square: A Year, a Life in Rome
by Leonard Barkan
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Eminent Anti-Victorian
March 9, 2006
The Letters of Lytton Strachey
edited by Paul Levy
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Child of the Century
August 11, 2005
Quicksands: A Memoir
by Sybille Bedford
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On ‘The Ivory Tower’
March 11, 2004