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 and his fifth novel, The Stranger’s Child, was published last October. He lives in London.
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Grief, Rage, Cognac, and a Computer
August 16, 2012
The Chemistry of Tears
by Peter Carey
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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