Stuart Holroyd

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genre = philosophy, literary criticism, parapsychology, contacts with extraterrestrial life, sexual love
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Stuart Holroyd (born August 10, 1933 in Bradford, Yorkshire) is a British writer. ["Contemporary Authors" (Thomson Gale, January 1, 2004)]

He first came to prominence for the philosophical and critical works produced during his close association with the writers Colin Wilson and Bill Hopkins, but has since written prolifically on parapsychology, contacts with extraterrestrial life, sexual love and other topics.

Life

The son of Thomas Holroyd and Edith (King) Holroyd, Stuart Holroyd attended University College London (1957-58) ["Contemporary Authors" (Thomson Gale, January 1, 2004)] but left without completing his degree.cite book|title="Flight and Pursuit"|author=Holroyd, Stuart|date=1959|location=London|publisher=Victor Gollancz Ltd]

He published his first book, "Emergence from Chaos", in 1957 at the age of twenty-three. The same publisher, Victor Gollancz, had recently published "The Outsider", the first book by Holroyd's friend Colin Wilson. Wilson and Holroyd, along with the novelist Bill Hopkins, were associated with the literary movement known as the Angry Young Men. In the same year, Holroyd, Wilson and Hopkins each contributed an essay to "Declaration" - an anthology of statements by writers and artists then labelled, rightly or wrongly, as Angry Young Men (the contributors included not only John Osborne and Kingsley Amis but Doris Lessing and the director Lindsay Anderson).cite book|title="Declaration"|author=Maschler, Tom (editor)|date=1957|location=London|publisher=MacGibbon and Kee] In 1958, Holroyd's play, "The Tenth Chance" was produced at the Royal Court Theater; disturbances in the audience during the single performance, and a subsequent confrontation in a nearby public house involving Kenneth Tynan, Christopher Logue and Colin Wilson were widely reported. ["Sloane Square Stomp", Time Magazine, Monday, Mar. 24, 1958]

"Emergence from Chaos" was a literary/psychological study of several modern poets. Holroyd's next book, "Flight and Pursuit" (1959) was an autobiographical examination of the author's search for "spiritual values".

In 1961, Holroyd married Susan Joy Bennett. ["Contemporary Authors" (Thomson Gale, January 1, 2004)] With the exception of a textbook on English literature ("The English Imagination"), Holroyd did not publish another book for sixteen years. "Contraries; A Personal Progression", which appeared in 1975, was a memoir of the "angry" years of the late 1950s, containing portraits of Wilson and Hopkins.cite book|title="Contraries: A Personal Progression"|author=Holroyd, Stuart|date=1975|location=London|publisher=The Bodley Head Ltd]

Holroyd has since turned his attention to different subjects, writing a series of books on the paranormal, parapsychology, encounters with extraterrestrial life, gnosticism and the philosophy of Krishnamurthi.

Bibliography

Books

* "Emergence from Chaos" (1957)
* "Flight and Pursuit" (1959)
* "The English Imagination" (1969)
* "" (1975)
* "Dream Worlds" (1976)
* "PSI and the Conscious Explosion" (1977)
* "Alien Intelligence" (1979)
* "Briefing for the Landing on Planet Earth" (1979)
* With Susan Holroyd "The Complete Book of Sexual Love" (1979)
* "Quest of the Quier Mind" (1980)
* "" (1991)

Play

* "The Tenth Chance" (1958)

Critical essay

* "A Sense of Crisis" in "Declaration" (1957)

References

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