Simon Gray
Novelist, TV Writer
1936 – 2008
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Who was Simon Gray?
Simon James Holliday Gray, CBE 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 5 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.
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- Born
- Oct 21, 1936
Hayling Island - Also known as
- Simon James Holliday Gray
- Simon James Holliday Gray, CBE
- Parents
- Spouses
- Katherine Rothschild
(1997 - 2008/08/06) - Beryl Mary Kevern
(1965 - 1997)
- Katherine Rothschild
- Children
- Nationality
- United Kingdom
- England
- Profession
- Education
- Dalhousie University
- Trinity College, Cambridge
- Westminster School
- University of Cambridge
- Died
- Aug 7, 2008
London
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on July 23, 2013
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