Career
He was the writer of much erotic fiction and novelisations, and a freelance writer who turned his hand to non-fiction. His experimental novel, I Hear Voices, was published in 1958 by the Olympia Press, and his plays include, a witty two-hander in which two young men discuss an absent mistress, and Tests (1966), which collects surreal playlets written for Peter Brook"s Theatre of Cruelty. Ableman was born in Leeds, Yorkshire, into a Jewish family, and brought up mainly in New New York
He settled in Hampstead, London in the United Kingdom.
His father was a tailor and his mother was a small-time actress. Ableman was of Jewish ancestry, Russian on his paternal side and German on his maternal side.
