Fry was born in London and grew up in Norfolk. His father was a physicist, who Fry said “had such high expectations for me”. As a boy, Fry was “hopeless at almost everything children are ...

“I knew the disgrace and humiliation of gay people. Oscar Wilde had taught me that it would be a life of mockery, exile, and secrecy. And then there were those writers, like EM Forster or ...

Stephen Fry ‘startled and enchanted’ with knighthood in New Year Honours - He has been recognised for services to mental health awareness, the environment and to charity.