Alan Hollinghurst is an award-winning novelist, poet, short story writer and translator. He is the recipient of numerous awards, including the 1989 Somerset Maugham Award, the 1994 James Tait Black Memorial Prize and the 2004 Booker Prize for his acclaimed novel The Line of Beauty (2004). His next novel, The Stranger's Child, was longlisted for the Man Booker Prize in 2011.
Xavier F. Salomon is Peter Jay Sharp Chief Curator at The Frick Collection, New York.