Tom W Hodgkinson
Thomas W Hodgkinson (born 1976) is a British journalist, novelist and screenwriter.
Biography
Born in London, he was educated at Harrow School and St Anne's College, Oxford, where he studied Classics.
From 1999 to 2002, he worked for Literary Review under the editorship of Auberon Waugh. Since 2007, he has been a contributing editor at The Week magazine. Hodgkinson has written for The Spectator, the Daily Mail, The Sunday Times and The Guardian.
In 2011, he became the first person officially to swim from Albania to Corfu.
In 2013 his thriller screenplay Memoirs of a Stalker, which he co-wrote with Daisy Aitkens, was a finalist at the Austin Film Festival. In 2014-15, his romantic comedy screenplay The Magnificent Kate Morgan was nominated as a finalist or semi-finalist at the Austin Film Festival, the Sun Valley Film Festival and the LA Comedy Festival. As a screenwriter, he has twice spoken on the Radio 4 Today programme AbOUT Hollywood's reliance on intellectual property: only making films based on pre-existing material, whether a novel, memoir or theme park ride.
He is the author of the novel Memoirs of a Stalker, published in January 2016 by Silvertail Books, and the co-author with Hubert van den Bergh of How To Sound Cultured: Master the 250 Names that Intellectuals Love to Drop into Conversation, published in November 2015 by Icon Books
Bibliography
- How To Sound Cultured: Master the 250 Names that Intellectuals Love to Drop into Conversation (2015)
- Memoirs of a Stalker (2016)