Max Fincher

Max Fincher wrote his PhD at King's College London, a queer reading of late eighteenth-century Gothic fiction that was published as 'Queering Gothic in the Romantic Age' by Palgrave Macmillan in 2007. A screenplay, 'Ambrosio', based upon the first horror novel, 'The Monk' (1796) by Matthew Lewis, was taken on by Pollinger Literary Agency in 2005. He has also edited two early historical/gothic novels 'The Fatal Vow' and 'The One Pound Note' by the popular early nineteenth-century writer, Francis Lathom. Both editions are published by the niche US publisher, Valancourt Books. He is a regular contributor to The Times Literary Supplement and is currently guest blogger at the University of Stirling 'Gothic Imagination' blog at www.gothic.stir.uk

After leaving KCL in 2003, Max worked in the Civil Service in London, and then went on to work for two healthcare policy think-tanks, The King's Fund and the Nuffield Trust, London. In between these jobs, he worked as a freelance tutor at Royal Holloway (University of London) and he has also been a carer, looking after his father who suffers from vascular dementia. He works as a private tutor near both London and Oxford, and enjoys the advantages of living near both cities.

His first novel,The Pretty Gentleman, took five years to research and complete, and Max acknowledges that he has been inspired by reading gothic literature and also the best-selling queer historical novels of Sarah Waters.

More details about Max's writing can be found at: www.maxfincher.com