Philip Hoare

Philip Hoare (Southampton, 1958), a passionate promoter of maritime topics, wrote and presented the documentary film. The Hunt for Moby-Dick and directed three films for the program of BBC, Whale NightHe is a professor of creative writing at the University of Southampton and an artist-in-residence at... The Marine Institute, from the Plymouth UniversityConsidered one of the most talented writers in English-language literature, he is the author of several popular essay works, among which are... The Life of Stephen Tennant (1990), Wilde's Last Stand: Decade, Conspiracy, and the First World War (1997), England's Lost Eden: Adventures in a Victorian Utopia (2005), Leviathan – In Search of the Giants of the Sea, winner of the prestigious award Samuel Johnson for the best essay book published in the United Kingdom, and also the most recent: The Sea Inside (2013). His works have been published in several countries, including the United States, Spain, and Italy.