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Alex Garland


 

Alex Garland (born 1970) is a British novelist, the son of the well-known and respected political cartoonist, Nick Garland. With a resolutely middle-class and intellectual background, he attended University College School, Hampstead and later graduated from Manchester University with a degree in History of Art, and was planning on following in his father's footsteps before he realized: "There aren't many openings for a cartoonist." Instead, he turned his attention to fiction, and started writing The Beach when he was just 23, drawing on his many experiences of travelling (he first went to India when he was 17, on a school trip, and he now makes several visits to South East Asia per year.)

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