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.

Works

• Isherwood is at Santa Monica, 1975
• Confidential Chats with Boys, 1982
• The Swimming Pool Library, 1988
• The Folding Star, 1994
• The Spell, 1998
• The Line of Beauty, 2004