Philip Hoare
Philip Hoare published his first book in 1990. Serious Pleasures: The Life of Stephen Tennant, an account of the outrageous aristocratic recluse, appeared on best seller lists on both sides of the Atlantic. Reviewing it for the New York Times, film director John Waters called it 'witty and amazing...both scholarly and hilarious at the same time.' In 1995 Hoare published Noel Coward: A Biography, acclaimed by Sheridan Morley as 'the definitive biography'. Wilde's Last Stand: Decadence, Conspiracy & the First World War (1997) was reviewed for the Sunday Times by Simon Callow: 'Hoare has identified one of the key moments in the formation of the modern world, and he has documented it with dazzling brilliance.' Spike Island: The Memory of a Military Hospital (2001) was chosen as his 'Book of the Year' by W.G. Sebald: 'An astonishing book not only for what it contains but also for its…wonderful prose style'. Hoare's next book, England's Lost Eden: In Search of a Victorian Utopia, was published by Fourth Estate in February 2005. Hoare has lectured widely both in Britain and the United States. His 1998 film on Hampshire for BBC 2's Travels With Pevsner, was praised as 'masterful' by the Sunday Telegraph. In 1999, Hoare co-curated the Icons of Pop exhibition at the National Portrait Gallery, which attracted over 225,000 visitors. Hoare has also appeared on BBC 2's Newsnight, Radio 4's Today programme, and CNN's Larry King Show. A regular contributor to the Independent, he divides his time between Hoxton and Southampton. His sixth book Leviathan has just been published in paperback by 4th Estate.
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