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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.
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.
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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 manically confessional...
The Independent pays tribute to Simon Gray, who died in 2008, as a playwright, novelist and memoirist. He wrote plays with dark humour and psychological insight, such as Butley and Otherwise Engaged, and memoirs that revealed his personal struggles and quirks.
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...
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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Find out all the plays written by Simon Gray, a British playwright and novelist, from his debut Wise Child in 1967 to his final collaboration The Last Cigarette in 2009. Browse the titles, genres, dates and summaries of his works.
