Alan Hollinghurst is the author of the novels The Swimming-Pool Library, The Spell, and The Line of Beauty. He has received the Somerset Maugham Award, the E. M. Forster Award of the American Academy of Arts and Letters, and the James Tait Black Memorial Prize for Fiction, and The Line of Beauty won the Man Booker Prize for fiction and was nominated for a National Book Critics Circle Award. He lives in London.