Tom Dolby
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Tom Dolby (born January 17, 1975) is an American novelist, essayist, journalist, and editor. He is the author of the best-selling novel The Trouble Boy (2004). His second novel, set at a Massachusetts boarding school, is titled The Sixth Form (2008). He is also the co-editor, with the novelist Melissa de la Cruz, of the personal essay anthology Girls Who Like Boys Who Like Boys: True Tales of Love, Lust, and Friendship Between Straight Women and Gay Men (2007), featuring works by Armistead Maupin, Ayelet Waldman, Andrew Solomon, Cindy Chupack, Simon Doonan, Gigi Levangie Grazer, David Ebershoff, and others.
Dolby's writing has appeared in The New York Times, The Village Voice, the San Francisco Chronicle, and Out. A personal essay of his appears in the recent anthology From Boys to Men: Gay Men Write About Growing Up (2006). He was a 2005 Library Laureate for the San Francisco Public Library, and was one of Instinct magazine’s Leading Men of 2004.
Dolby was born in London and raised in San Francisco, and is a graduate of The Hotchkiss School and Yale University. He is the son of American businessman and engineer Ray Dolby.
He currently lives in Manhattan, where he is working on his third novel. In June 2008 he announced his engagement to Andrew Frist, nephew of former U.S. senate majority leader, Bill Frist. His website is www.tomdolby.com.
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Girls Who Like Boys Who Like Boys website
