Stuart Holroyd

Stuart Holroyd (born August 10, 1933 in Bradford, Yorkshire) is a British writer. 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. The son of Thomas Holroyd and Edith (King) Holroyd, Stuart Holroyd attended University Colle... more

Stuart Holroyd (born August 10, 1933 in Bradford, Yorkshire) is a British writer. 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. The son of Thomas Holroyd and Edith (King) Holroyd, Stuart Holroyd attended University College London (1957-58) but left without completing his degree. 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... less