Simon Gray Writer

Simon James Holliday Gray, CBE (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. While teaching at Queen Mary, Gray began his writing career as a novelist in 1963 and, during the next 45 years, in addition to five 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.

Personal facts

Birth date	October 21, 1936
Birth name	Simon James Holliday Gray
Birth place	England , Hampshire , Hayling Island
Nationality	United Kingdom
Date of death	August 06, 2008
Place of death	London
Education	Dalhousie University Trinity College Cambridge
Education	Westminster School