Simon Gray
Simon Gray | |
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| Born | Simon James Holliday Gray 21 October 1936 Hayling Island, Hampshire, England |
| Died | 7 August 2008 (aged 71) London, England |
| Occupation | Playwright, screenwriter, memoirist, novelist academic (1965–1985) |
| Education | Westminster School |
| Alma mater | Dalhousie University (BA) Trinity College, Cambridge (BA) |
| Period | 1963–2008 |
| Genre | Drama, screenplay, memoir, novel |
| Notable works | Butley, Quartermaine's Terms, Otherwise Engaged, The Smoking Diaries |
| Spouse | Beryl Kevern
(m. 1965; div. 1997)Victoria Katherine Rothschild
(m. 1997) |
| Children | 2 |
| Website | |
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Literature portal | |
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 television and became well known for the self-deprecating wit characteristic of several volumes of memoirs or diaries.