biography
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Gray, Simon (James Holliday)
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| sex:
| male
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| lived:
| (1936– )
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| biography:
| Playwright, director, and novelist, born on Hayling Island, Hampshire, S England, UK. He studied at Cambridge, and became lecturer in English literature at Queen Mary College, London (1965–85). Many of his plays are set in the world of academics, depicting lonely alienated men rejected by society. His first play, Wise Child, was produced in 1967. Later plays include Otherwise Engaged (1975), Quartermaine's Terms (1981), Melon (1987), and Simply Disconnected (1996). In An Unnatural Pursuit (1985), he describes the suffering endured by a lonely playwright. |
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