Philip Hoare is a British writer, film-maker and curator. He won the 2009 Samuel Johnson Prize, now known as the
Baillie Gifford Prize for Non-Fiction, for his work Leviathan, or the Whale.
Hoare was the winner of the 2009 Samuel Johnson Prize, now known as the
Baillie Gifford Prize for Non-Fiction, for his work Leviathan, or the Whale.[9] The book, which describes a personal and societal fascination with whales, met critical acclaim.[10][11] Jonathan Mirsky, writing for Literary Review called the book "tremendous".[12]
The Whale: In Search Of The Giants Of The Sea (2010)
The Sea Inside (2013)
RisingTideFallingStar (2017)
Albert and the Whale: Albrecht Dürer and How Art Imagines Our World (2021)[a]
He has also edited The Sayings of Noël Coward (1997).
Hoare has co-authored or contributed to the following publications:
Essay on the evolution of class in the UK in a
British Council pamphlet, Posh: The Evolution of the Traditional British Brand (ed. Sorrel Hershberg, 1999).
An essay in Linder: Works 1976–2006 (2006), a collection about
Linder Sterling.
Gabriel Orozco (2006), exhibition catalogue and texts, with Mark Godfrey.
Greetings from Darktown : an illustrator's miscellany, a collection of the work of Jonny Hannah, with texts by Hoare, Sheena Calvert and
Peter Chrisp (2014).
Foreword to As is the sea (2014), writing by students from the
Royal College of Art (ed. Jessie Bond).
Another Green World – Linn Botanic Gardens: Encounters with a Scottish Arcadia (2015), photographs by
Alison Turnbull, text by Hoare.