Holdstock earned a Bachelor of Science from University College of North Wales, Bangor, with honours in applied Zoology (1967–1970). He recalled that as a young adult he had jobs including banana boatman, construction worker and slate miner. At the age of seven he started attending Gillingham Grammar School in the Medway Towns. His father, Robert Frank Holdstock, was a police officer and his mother, Kathleen Madeline Holdstock, was a nurse. Robert Holdstock, the eldest of five children, was born in Hythe, Kent. He received three BSFA awards and won the World Fantasy Award in the category of Best Novel of 1985. His science fiction and fantasy works explore philosophical, psychological, anthropological, spiritual and woodland themes. Robert Paul Holdstock (2 August 1948 – 29 November 2009) was an English novelist and author best known for his works of Celtic, Nordic, Gothic and Pictish fantasy literature, predominantly in the fantasy subgenre of mythic fiction.
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