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
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Nationality
  • United Kingdom
  • England
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Education
  • Dalhousie University
  • Trinity College, Cambridge
  • Westminster School
  • University of Cambridge
Died
Aug 7, 2008
London

Submitted
on July 23, 2013

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