Jack Holland was a highly respected author and journalist known
particularly for his commentary about Northern Irish politics. He grew
up in Belfast (where he was taught by Seamus Heaney) and worked with
Jeremy Paxman and other outstanding journalists at BBC Belfast during a
period of seminal current affairs programming. Jack published four
novels and seven works of non-fiction, most of the latter having to do
with politics and terrorism in Northern Ireland, including the
bestselling Phoenix. Sadly, Jack died of cancer in 2004, just after the
manuscript of Misogyny had been delivered and accepted by his US
publisher. On his death, his family received letters of respect from
statesmen including Ted Kennedy and Hilary Clinton, who had come to rely
on his balanced analysis of Irish politic.
