It focuses on Nick Guest, a recent Oxford graduate writing his PhD on Henry James. The Line of Beauty is a 1980s-set novel covered the peak years of Margaret Thatcher’s Conservative rule and the growth of the AIDS crisis. He was first nominated for the Booker Prize for his second, The Folding Star, and won in 2004 for The Line of Beauty. His literary career began with poetry, for which he won the Newdigate Prize in 1974, and his first novel (of just six to date), The Swimming Pool Library, wasn't published until 1988. In the late seventies he was a lecturer at Oxford, moving to UCL in the early 80s, and was deputy editor on the Times Literary Supplement from 1985 to 1990. While there he shared a house with future poet laureate Andrew Motion and wrote his thesis on Ronald Firbank, E. The son of a bank manager & former WW2 RAF officer, he attended the feeing paying Canford School in Dorset before studying English at Magdalen College, Oxford.
Alan James Hollinghurst (1954- active 1975-), born Stroud, Gloucestershire, England.
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