Tom Holt



Tom Holt (Thomas Charles Louis Holt; born September 13, 1961) is a British novelist. He was born in London, the son of novelist Hazel Holt, and was educated at Westminster School, Wadham College, Oxford, and The College of Law, London.

Holt's works include mythopoeic novels which parody or take as their theme various aspects of mythology, history or literature and develop them in new and often humorous ways. He has also produced a number of "straight" historical novels writing as Thomas Holt and fantasy novels writing as K.J. Parker.

Lucia in Wartime  and Lucia Triumphant are the two novels Tom Holt wrote based on the characters created by E.F. Benson.