Philip Hoare
| Philip Hoare | |
|---|---|
| Born |
Patrick K. Moore 1958 Southampton, England, UK |
| Nationality | British |
| Occupation | Writer |
| Website | Philip Hoare's homepage |
Philip Hoare (born Patrick Moore, 1958) is a British writer, especially of history and biography. He instigated the Moby Dick Big Read project. He is Professor of Creative Writing at the University of Southampton and Leverhulme artist-in-residence at the Marine Institute, Plymouth University, which awarded him an honorary doctorate in 2011.
He was born Patrick Moore. He chose the name Philip Hoare to avoid confusion with astronomer Patrick Moore:
Imagine having to spend your entire life living with people asking: 'You're not that astronomer, are you?' Or: 'Do you play the xylophone?' Another reason was that when I was managing bands I used to review my own bands for the NME and Sounds as Philip Hoare. Philip was my confirmation name; Hoare my mother's maiden name.
Hoare was born in Southampton and attended St Mary's College.
In 1982–83, he ran the record label Operation Twilight, a UK-based subsidiary of the Belgian Les Disques du Crépuscule, which launched the career of the Pale Fountains. In 2009 he exhibited artworks made with Angela Cockagne at Viktor Wynd Fine Art Inc in London
Hoare is the author of seven works of non-fiction: Serious Pleasures: The Life of Stephen Tennant (1990); Noël Coward: A Biography (1995); Wilde's Last Stand: Decadence, Conspiracy, and the First World War (1997), Spike Island: The Memory of a Military Hospital (2000), the story of Netley Hospital in Southampton; and England's Lost Eden: Adventures in a Victorian Utopia (2005) about Mary Anne Girling and the New Forest Shakers. Leviathan or, The Whale (2008), won the 2009 BBC Samuel Johnson Prize for non-fiction. His most recent book is The Sea Inside (2013).
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