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- Simon James Holliday Gray CBE FRSL (21 October 1936 – 7 August 2008) was an English playwright and memoirist who also had a career as a university lecturer in English literature at Queen Mary, University of London, for 20 years. While teaching at Queen Mary, Gray began his writing career as a novelist in 1963 and, during the next 45 years, in addition to five published novels, wrote 40 original stage plays, screenplays, and screen adaptations of his own and others' works for stage, film and...
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Simon James Holliday Gray CBE FRSL (21 October 1936 – 7 August 2008) [1] was an English playwright and memoirist who also had a career as a university lecturer in English literature at Queen Mary, University of London, for 20 years.
Oct 17, 2024 · Simon Gray (born Oct. 21, 1936, Hayling Island, Hampshire, Eng.—died Aug. 6, 2008, London) was a British dramatist whose plays, often set in academia, are noted for their challenging storylines, witty, literary dialogue, and complex characterizations.
- The Editors of Encyclopaedia Britannica
Simon Gray was born at Hayling Island, Hampshire, in 1936; his father, James, a Scots GP turned pathologist, his mother, Barbara, nee Holliday, a former Olympic athlete. At the age of three, Simon Gray was evacuated to Canada with his elder brother Nigel to escape the war.
Simon Gray was born on Hayling Island on 21st October 1936. He wrote more than 30 stage plays, five novels and numerous plays for TV, radio and film.
Simon Gray was born in 1936 in Hayling Island, and studied at Westminster School, Dalhousie University, and Trinity College, Cambridge. He wrote many stage, radio and television plays, and the screenplays for Butley and A Month in the Country, after the novel by J. L. Carr.
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- Faber And Faber Ltd, Granta Publications
Simon James Holliday Gray was one of the wittiest and most comically acerbic of modern English playwrights. As a child, he was sent to stay with relatives in Canada during World War II...
Aug 8, 2008 · By Bruce Weber. Aug. 8, 2008. Simon Gray, who wrote bitingly comic plays like “Butley,” “Otherwise Engaged” and “Quartermaine’s Terms” about the educated British middle class and whose almost...
