Jake Arnott | |
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Born | Buckinghamshire, England | 11 March 1961
Nationality | British |
Education | Aylesbury Grammar School |
Occupation | Novelist |
Notable work | The Long Firm (1999) |
Jake Arnott (born 11 March 1961) [1] is a British novelist and dramatist, author of The Long Firm (1999) and six other novels.
Arnott was born in Buckinghamshire, England. Having left Aylesbury Grammar School at the age of 17, he had various jobs including as labourer, mortuary technician, artist's model, theatrical agency assistant, and actor both with the Red Ladder Theatre Company in Leeds and appearing as a mummy in the 1999 film The Mummy . He lived in squats such as Bonnington Square in south London, and came out as bisexual in his twenties. [2] [3] In 2005, Arnott was ranked one of Britain's 100 most influential LGBT people. [4]
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All of the novels by Arnott are engaged in the excavation of secret histories in the teasing out and restoration of events that have taken place beneath the surface of society. [5]