Charles Webb was born in 1939 in San Francisco. The Graduate was
his first novel; since then he has published Love, Roger, The
Marriage of a Young Stockbroker, The Abolitionist of Clark Gable
Place and Elsinor.
Hanif Kureishi was born and brought up in Kent. He is the author of
numerous novels, short story collections, screenplays and plays. In
1984 his My Beautiful Laundrette received an Oscar nomination for
Best Screenplay. His second film, Sammy and Rosie Get Laid, was
followed by London Kills Me, which he also directed. The Buddha of
Suburbia won the Whitbread Prize for Best First Novel in 1990. His
second novel, The Black Album, was published in 1995 and his first
collection of short stories, Love in a Blue Time, was published in
1997. Intimacy, his third novel, was published in 1998. Midnight
All Day was published in 2000, followed in 2001 by Gabriel's Gift
and his collection of essays, The Word and the Bomb. Hanif Kureishi
lives in West London.
He writes with this lovely, spare style
*Nick Hornby*
He writes with this lovely, spare style -- Nick Hornby
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