Patrick McGrath

Patrick McGrath is a British novelist born on February 7, 1950, in London, England, whose work is categorized as gothic fiction. He teaches in the MFA program at the New School in New York and is also on the writing faculty at Princeton University. He is best known for novels including Spider, Asylum, and Martha Peake, several of which have been adapted into films, and his fiction is characterized by unreliable first-person narrators exploring themes of mental illness and psychological disturbance.