By 1995, Tom Holt had 15 titles to his name that gave him enough income to finally allow him to quit his job and become a professional writer. His signature in the writing of his novel is the juxtaposition of the fantastic with the mundane, that he perfected in the novel “Expecting Someone Taller”. However, he hit his stride with third novel, which was the first foray into the parodic mythopoeic fiction that he has been writing to this day and the genre he is best known for. It was during his practice as a solicitor that he published the Lucia series of novels that were sequels to the “Lucia” and “Mapp” novels by EF Benson. His foray into novel writing was probably an effort to find an escape from the legal career pit he found himself in. He lives in Chard, Somerset and is married. Nonetheless, his passions soon led him into the law where he soon qualified as a taxes and death solicitor. 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. 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. His literary titles include mythopoeic novels themed on literature, history, and mythology that are developed in a sort of parody or comical fashion. He would start writing his unique brand of comic science fiction while he was still a student at Oxford. Tom Holt was an early bloomer and by the age of thirteen had already written his first literary work “Poems by Holt”. Born in London, he went to Westminster School before proceeding to Wadham College, Oxford, and finally the College of Law, London. He was born to Hazel Holt, who was himself a famous novelist known for the Sheila Malory series. 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.
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