Robert Holloway

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Robert Holloway

Best known for a playful debut that imagines a correspondence with Oscar Wilde, this writer brings literary curiosity and a taste for unusual premises to his work. His books range from award-winning fiction to memoir and other inventive projects.

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The Phœnix of Sodom; or, the Vere Street Coterie Being an Exhibition of the Gambols Practised by the Ancient Lechers of Sodom and Gomorrah, Embellished and Improved with the Modern Refinements in Sodomitical Practices, by the Members of the Vere Street Coterie, of Detestable Memory.

The Phœnix of Sodom; or, the Vere Street Coterie Being an Exhibition of the Gambols Practised by the Ancient Lechers of Sodom and Gomorrah, Embellished and Improved with the Modern Refinements in Sodomitical Practices, by the Members of the Vere Street Coterie, of Detestable Memory.

by Robert Holloway

About the author

C. Robert Holloway is an American author whose first novel, The Unauthorized Letters of Oscar Wilde (1997), won the Hemingway First Novel Prize. The book imagines an exchange between the author and Wilde, and it helped establish Holloway as a writer drawn to literary history, wit, and offbeat storytelling.

Published information about his work shows an eclectic career. In addition to fiction, he has been associated with a two-character play about Oscar Wilde and his mother, and later books such as Swan Song, Dangerous Crossing, and Charlie, the Wonder Cat suggest a range that moves between literary fiction, memoir, and lighter, more playful material.

Some available biographical notes also connect Holloway with film-industry work in location management, which adds another interesting thread to his background. Even from the limited public record, he comes across as a writer willing to follow his interests in unexpected directions rather than stay in one lane.