Alan Hollinghurst

Alan Hollinghurst is an English novelist born in Stroud, Gloucestershire, in 1954. He studied English at Magdalen College, Oxford, and has published seven novels since his 1988 debut, The Swimming-Pool Library, credited with helping bring gay-themed fiction into the literary mainstream. His other novels include The Folding Star, The Line of Beauty, The Stranger's Child, The Sparsholt Affair and Our Evenings.