Tom Holt

Tom Holt, born Thomas Charles Louis Holt in 1961 is a British author best known for writing a series of fantasy and science fiction novels with a touch of humor. He was born to Hazel Holt, who was himself a famous novelist known for the Sheila Malory series. Born in London, he went to Westminster School before proceeding to Wadham College, Oxford, and finally the College of Law, London. Tom Holt was an early bloomer and by the age of thirteen had already written his first literary work “Poems by Holt”. He would start writing his unique brand of comic science fiction while he was still a student at Oxford. His literary titles include mythopoeic novels themed on literature, history, and mythology that are developed in a sort of parody or comical fashion. Writing as KJ Parker and under his real name Tom Holt, he has also written several historical novels including a collaboration on the unauthorized biography of former British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher. Even as he claims that he was a student of Greek agriculture at Wadham College, he asserts that he used most of the time in college playing billiards. Nonetheless, his passions soon led him into the law where he soon qualified as a taxes and death solicitor. He lives in Chard, Somerset and is married.