Nationality: English
Author
Born: 21 October 1936 Confidence Level
Died: 7 August 2008
Playwright, novelist, diarist. Simon Gray was Lecturer in English Literature at Queen Mary's London when his career as a writer began in 1963. He began writing for television, and subsequently the stage. Harold Pinter directed eight of Simon Gray's plays - the only writer for whom he would regularly perform this function. The relationship began with the 1971 production fo Gray's Butley, which was subsequently made into a film, also directed by Pinter. Gray's Old Masters (2004) was the last production for the stage that Pinter was ever to direct. Gray's friendship and professional relationship with Harold Pinter is detailed in many accounts across Gray's diaries and memoirs, though his account of their work together on The Common Pursuit (1984) was the cause of a temporary falling out.
Westminster School (Training & Education | Est. Unknown)
Dalhousie University (Training & Education | Est. 1818)
BA awarded in 1957
Trinity College, Cambridge [if using for Person education, please delete and use instead Cambridge while indicating Trinity College in the notes field] (Training & Education | Est. Unknown)
BA awarded in 1961
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Judy Daish Associates currently handle the estate of Simon Gray
CBE
2004
Awarded for services to Drama and Literature
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Simon_Gray
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Simon_Gray
https://www.theguardian.com/culture/2008/aug/07/simongray.theatre
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Lyn Gardner, Simon Gray, The Guardian, 7 August 2008 [Accessed 19 July 2019]