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Career. His fiction is principally characterised by the first person unreliable narrator, and recurring subject matter in his work includes mental illness, repressed homosexuality and adulterous relationships. [6] His novel Martha Peake won the Premio Flaiano Prize in Italy [7] and Asylum was shortlisted for the 1996 Guardian Fiction Prize. [4]
Patrick McGrath was born in London and grew up near Broadmoor Hospital where his father was Medical Superintendent. He was educated at Stonyhurst College. He is a British novelist whose work has been categorized as gothic fiction. He is married to actress Maria Aitken and lives in New York City.
Patrick McGrath has 79 books on Goodreads with 113606 ratings. Patrick McGrath’s most popular book is Follia.
May 21, 2021 · Culture & Life. Patrick McGrath: my five best books. The award-winning author of nine novels and two short story collections chooses his five favourite books. By The Week Staff. last updated 21...
Jul 26, 2015 · Patrick McGrath explains the story behind writing his 1996 novel Asylum. 27 July 2015. The novel Asylum was conceived in the spring of 1994.
Patrick McGrath is the author of several modern gothic novels, including Asylum and Spider, and two collections of stories. He lives in New York, where he is on the writing faculties of the New School and Princeton University.
Jan 1, 2001 · Master storyteller Patrick McGrath--author of the critically acclaimed novel Asylum and a finalist for England's prestigious Whitbread Prize for fiction--once again spins a hypnotic tale of psychological suspense and haunting beauty.
