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Philip Hoare is a British writer, film-maker and curator. He won the 2009 Samuel Johnson Prize, now known as the Baillie Gifford Prize for Non-Fiction, for his work Leviathan, or the Whale.
Philip wrote and presented the BBC Arena film The Hunt for Moby-Dick, and directed three short films for BBC’s Whale Night. He is co-curator of the Moby-Dick and Ancient Mariner ‘Big Reads’, and is professor of creative writing at the University of Southampton.
Philip Hoare. Non-Fiction. Poetry. Born: Southampton. Publishers: Fourth Estate. Agents: Aitken Alexander Associates Ltd. Biography. Philip Hoare was born Southampton, England, on 22 May 1958, and educated in Southampton and London, with a degree from the University of London in English and History.
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May 5, 2021 · With “Albert and the Whale,” the biographer and critic Philip Hoare trains his mind on the Renaissance artist Albrecht Dürer, then lets it drift to art history, nature writing and elements of...
Philip Hoare was born and brought up in Southampton, where he still lives. His books include Serious Pleasures: The Life of Stephen Tennant;(1990); Noel Coward: A Biography (1995), Wilde’s Last Stand: Decadence, Consipiracy and the First World War; (1997), and Spike Island: The Memory of a Military Hospital (2001), which W.G. Sebald praised ...
Philip Hoare is the author of nine works of non-fiction, including biographies of Stephen Tennant and Noël Coward, and the studies, Wilde's Last Stand and England's Lost Eden. Spike Island was chosen by W.G. Sebald as his book of the year for 2001.
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Nov 3, 2011 · By Philip Hoare. November 3, 2011. The author in the Azores, among friends. For years, “Moby-Dick” defeated me. I think I was put off the book when, as a child, I watched the 1956 John Huston...
