Alan Hollinghurst

British · b. 1954

Alan Hollinghurst writes about gay English life with Henry James's formal elegance and Oscar Wilde's wit. "The Line of Beauty" won the 2004 Booker Prize, tracing a young man through Thatcher-era society and the AIDS crisis. His novels examine how desire intersects with class, beauty, and history. He transformed gay fiction into high literary art.

Books by Alan Hollinghurst

• The Stranger's Child (2011)
• The Line of Beauty (2004)
• The Folding Star (1994)
• The Swimming-Pool Library (1988)
• Our Evenings (2024)
• The Sparsholt Affair (2017)
• The Spell (1998)

Recognition

• Booker Prize (2004)