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Patrick McGrath was born on 7 February, 1950 in London, England, is a British novelist (born 1950). Discover Patrick McGrath's Biography, Age, Height, Physical Stats, Dating/Affairs, Family and career updates. Learn How rich is he in this year and how he spends money? Also learn how he earned most of networth at the age of 74 years old?

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Occupation Novelist
Age 74 years old
Zodiac Sign Aquarius
Born 7 February, 1950
Birthday 7 February
Birthplace London, England
Nationality United Kingdom

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1950

Patrick McGrath (born 7 February 1950) is a British novelist, whose work has been categorised 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.

1967

In 1967, at the age of sixteen, he ran away from this institution to London.

1971

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.

1981

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.

1996

His novel Martha Peake won the Premio Flaiano Prize in Italy and Asylum was shortlisted for the 1996 Guardian Fiction Prize.

He is also currently on the writing faculties of both the New School in New York and Princeton University.

Professor Emeritus of Creative Writing at Princeton, Joyce Carol Oates, makes the case that McGrath is transcribing the "nightmares of the 'shattered personality' that resonate within us all," calling his short stories "masterful and seductive, ... Bold, original, and disquieting tales are told by narrators who are themselves bizarre (a boot, a fly—to name just two) and are in most cases omniscient."

2002

Three of McGrath's novels and one of his stories have been adapted into films, two of which adaptations (Spider, 2002 and The Grotesque, 1995) were written by McGrath himself.

2005

The film adaptation for Asylum, 2005 was written by Patrick Marber and a short film made of The Lost Explorer from Blood and Water and Other Tales was adapted by Tim Walker.

From The Wardrobe Mistress to the current unnamed novel-in-progress on the Spanish Civil War, McGrath shows increased interest in the fascistic tendencies in international politics and its effects on the psychology of characters.

In the former, for example, the main character Joan Grice uncovers the man she had been living with for a long time, who recently died, had been in the past a member of Mosley's British Union of Fascists.

This revelation is so upsetting that causes her to get crazy, and her mental breakdown is signed by a murderous act.

Similarly, in McGrath's Last Days in Cleaver Square (2021), the narrator, an old man called Francis McNulty—a Spanish civil war veteran—is haunted by Francisco Franco's ghost, which appears in his London garden, and later in his bed, too.

He is so much obsessed with his hallucinations that at a certain point, while in Madrid, Franco's spirit causes him to commit a bizarre act of atonement.

McGrath has also co-edited and written the introduction to a highly influential anthology of short fiction, The New Gothic.

He has published many reviews and essays, including introductions to Barnaby Rudge, Moby Dick, The Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde, and In a Glass Darkly.

2006

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.

2007

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 archive was acquired by the University of Stirling, Scotland.

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.

2018

On 27 June 2018, the University of Stirling, Scotland, conferred on him the degree of Doctor of the University "for Patrick McGrath's outstanding support of academic research."

He is married to actress Maria Aitken and divides his time between London and New York City.

He is the oldest of four siblings.