Edward St Aubyn | |
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| Born | 1960 (age 63–64) London, England |
| Occupation | Author, journalist |
| Education | Westminster School |
| Alma mater | Keble College, Oxford |
| Notable works | Patrick Melrose series |
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Edward St Aubyn (born 1960) is an English author and journalist. He is the author of ten novels, including notably the semi-autobiographical Patrick Melrose novels. In 2006, Mother's Milk was shortlisted for the Booker Prize.
St Aubyn was born in 1960 [1] in London, the son of Roger Geoffrey St Aubyn (1906–1985), a surgeon, and his second wife, Lorna Mackintosh (1929–2005). On his father's side, he is a great-great grandson of Sir Edward St Aubyn, 1st Baronet, and a great-nephew of John St Aubyn, 1st Baron St Levan. [2]
St Aubyn's father was first married to Sophie Helene Freiin von Puthon, daughter of Baron Heinrich Puthon, long-time president of the Salzburg Festival, whom he divorced in 1957. St Aubyn has two half-sisters by his father's first marriage, and an elder sister, Alexandra. [2] He grew up in London and France, where his family had houses. [3] He has described an unhappy childhood in which he was repeatedly raped by his sexually abusive father from the ages of 5 to 8, with the complicity of his mother. [3] [4] St. Aubyn later said of his father, "He had a small canvas, but he was as destructive as he could be. If he’d been given Cambodia, or China, I’m sure he would have done sterling work". [5]
St Aubyn attended Sussex House [6] and then Westminster School. In 1979 he went on to read English at Keble College, Oxford. At the time a heroin addict, he graduated with a pass, the lowest possible class of degree. [3] [7]
Five of St Aubyn's novels, Never Mind, Bad News, Some Hope, Mother's Milk , and At Last, form The Patrick Melrose Novels, the first four of which were republished in a single volume in 2012, in anticipation of the fifth. They are based on the author's own life; the titular protagonist grows up in a highly dysfunctional upper-class English family, and deals with his father's sexual abuse, the deaths of both parents, alcoholism, heroin addiction and recovery, and marriage and parenthood. [8]
The books have been hailed as a powerful exploration of how emotional health can be carved out of childhood trauma. [9]
Mother's Milk was made into a feature film released in 2011. The screenplay was written by St Aubyn and director Gerald Fox. It starred Jack Davenport, Adrian Dunbar, Diana Quick, and Margaret Tyzack in her last performance.
In 2018 a five-part television series, Patrick Melrose was broadcast, a joint production of Showtime and Sky Atlantic. Benedict Cumberbatch stars as Patrick Melrose (with the young Patrick played by Sebastian Maltz), with each episode based on a different novel in the series. The series premiered on Showtime on 12 May 2018 to favourable reviews. [10]
From 1987 to 1990, St Aubyn was married to the author Nicola Shulman, now Marchioness of Normanby. [2]
He has a son by Jane Longman, daughter of publisher (head of Longman) [16] Mark Frederick Kerr Longman (1916-1972) and Lady Elizabeth Mary (1924-2016). Her mother, elder daughter of Rudolph Lambart, 10th Earl of Cavan, was a bridesmaid and friend of Queen Elizabeth II. [17] [18]
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