Alan Hollinghurst

Alan Hollinghurst is a gay British novelist. He was born on May 26, 1954 in Stroud, Gloucestershire, the only child of a bank manager. He studied English at Magdalen College, Oxford. While at Oxford he shared a house with Andrew Motion, collected the dole, and was awarded the Newdigate Prize for poetry.

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Hollinghurst is the author of four novels: The Swimming Pool Library (1988), The Folding Star (1994), The Spell (1998), and The Line of Beauty (2004), the latter of which was awarded the 2004 Man Booker Prize for outstanding fiction written in the Commonwealth or the Republic of Ireland.

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May 26: May 26 is the 146th day of the year in the Gregorian calendar (147th in leap years). There are 219 days remaining before the end of the year....

1954: 1954 was a common year starting on Friday of the Gregorian calendar....

Stroud, Gloucestershire: :For other places of the same name, see Stroud (disambiguation)....

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