Patrick McGrath (novelist)
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Patrick McGrath at the 2008 Brooklyn Book Festival
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| Born |
7 February 1950 London, England, UK |
| Occupation | Novelist |
| Nationality | British |
| Education | Birmingham College of Commerce (1971) |
| Genre | Gothic fiction |
| Spouse | Maria Aitken (m. 1991) |
Patrick McGrath (born 7 February 1950) is a British novelist, whose work has been categorized as gothic fiction.
McGrath was born in London and grew up near Broadmoor Hospital from the age of five where his father was Medical Superintendent. He was educated at a Jesuit boarding school in Windsor from the age of thirteen, before moving to another Jesuit public school, Stonyhurst College in Lancashire, upon the closure of his first school. In 1967, at the age of sixteen, he ran away from this institution to London. He graduated from the Birmingham College of Commerce with an honours degree in English and American literature in 1971, awarded externally by the University of London, before his father found him a job later that year in Penetang, Ontario working in the Oakridge top-security unit of the Penetang Mental Health Centre.
He has lived in various parts of North America and also spent several years on a remote island in the North Pacific, before finally settling in New York City in 1981.
McGrath also worked as a teacher of creative writing to undergraduate and graduate students at the University of Texas at Austin in the fall semester of 2006. He also taught craft courses for a number of years in the MFA program at Hunter College, New York, and since 2007, has taught an MFA program at the New School in New York.
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.
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