Simon James Holliday GRAY

Background

Gray, Simon James Holliday was born on October 21, 1936. Son of James Davidson Gray and Barbara Cecelia Mary (Holliday) Davidson.

Education

Student, Westminister School, Dalhousie University, Halifax, Nova Scotia. Master of Arts, University Cambridge.

Career

Wise Child 1968, Sleeping Dog 1968, Dutch Uncle 1969, The Idiot 1971, Spoiled 1971, Butley 1971 (Evening StandardTeacher and writer; lecturer in English, Queen Mary College, University of London 1965-1984. Honorary Fellow, Quartermaster Corps., University of London.

Achievements

• Simon James Holliday Gray has been listed as a notable writer, educator by Marquis Who's Who.

Works

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  • Enter a Fox: Further Adventures of a Paranoid

    (How much can go wrong in a day? How much can go wrong in ...)

  • Enter a Fox

    ('Tomorrow - no, fuckwit, later today, this afternoon or e...)

  • Coda: The Smoking Diaries, Volume 4

    ( During a holiday with his wife in Crete, the celebrated...)

  • Simon Gray Four Plays: The Pig Trade, Japes, In the Vale of Health, The Holy Terror

    (The Pig Trade, Japes Too, Michael, The Holy Terror The Pi...)

  • The Year of the Jouncer

    (In these, the latest chronicles of triumph and disaster f...)

  • The Complete Smoking Diaries

    (When he turned sixty-five, playwright Simon Gray began to...)

  • The Smoking Diaries: The Smoking Diaries, Volume 1

    ( When he turned 65, the playwright Simon Gray began to k...)

  • The Late Middle Classes

    ( Simon Gray’s funny, melancholic and captivating play ab...)

  • Missing Dates

    (The accidental death of their parents when Michael and Ja...)

  • Simon Gray: Plays: v. 3: Quartermaine's Terms; Stage Struck; Close of Play; Rear Column; Month in the Country; Tartuffe

    ('The brave little lives that Gray so compassionately illu...)

  • Simply Disconnected

    (In Simon Gray's 1975 comedy, "Otherwise Engaged", success...)

  • The Last Cigarette: (Adapted from Simon Gray's The Smoking Diaries)

    (Notable for his uncompromising honesty and a wit both fie...)

  • Simon Gray Key Plays: "Butley", "Otherwise Engaged", "Quartermain's Terms", "Close of Play", "Late Middle Classes"

    (This collection of Simon Gray's plays includes: "Butley";...)

  • Hidden Laughter

    (Harry, a literary agent, and Louise, who is a writer, are...)

  • Cell Mates

    (This play takes as its central characters the spy George ...)

  • Otherwise Engaged and Other Plays

    (With his wife away, Simon Hench, successful publisher and...)

  • The Year of the Jouncer: The Smoking Diaries, Volume 2

    ( A great many writers use their own lives as the raw mat...)

  • Simon Gray: Plays: Vol 5: Cell Mates; Life Support; Just the Three of Us; Little Nell; the Old Masters; Japes; the Late Middle Classes

    ('Like a Henry James novella; circuitous, ambiguous, enthr...)

  • Fat Chance

    (In February 1995, Simon Gray's Cell Mates opened at the A...)

  • The Smoking Diaries Volume 4

    (Coda is Simon Gray's powerful account of the year in whic...)

  • Simon Gray: Plays: v. 1: Butley; Wise Child; Dutch Uncle; Spoiled; Sleeping Dog

    ("Butley" - 'What is so wondrous about a play so basically...)

  • Butley: A Play (A Viking compass book, C372)

    (One of a series of children's books featuring individual ...)

  • The Smoking Diaries: The Year of the Jouncer (v. 2)

    ( As a baby, Simon Gray discovered that he could move his...)

  • Japes (Nick Hern Books Drama Classics)

    ( Two brothers share the house they grew up in, and then ...)

  • The Early Diaries: AND An Unnatural Pursuit: Including An Unnatural Pursuit and How's That for Telling 'Em, Fat Lady?

    ("There are few things more enjoyable than reading the dia...)

  • The Common Pursuit.

    (This book presents a clear and in-depth account of abnorm...)

  • Simon Gray: Plays: v. 2: Otherwise Engaged; Dog Days; Molly; Plaintiff and Defendants; Two Sundays; Pig in a Poke; Man in a Side Car

    ('A superbly written play, a funny play, an agonising play...)

  • The Last Cigarette: The Smoking Diaries, Volume 3

    ( Simon Gray is determined to give up smoking. Really. At...)

  • Otherwise Engaged (Acting Edition)

    (5 3/8"x8 1/2" 41 page softcover play book. Publisher-Samu...)

  • Simon Gray- Butley - London Programme 1971- Criterion Theatre- Alan Bates

    (London Programme with Aan Bates on cover)

  • The Late Middle Classes (Nick Hern Books)

    ( A new black comedy by Simon Gray. )

  • Just the Three of Us

    ( A new black comedy by Simon Gray. )

  • Simon Gray: Plays: v. 4: Common Pursuit; Holy Terror; After Pilkington; Old Flames; They Never Slept

    ('Sharp, funny and clever ...What a pleasure to re-encount...)

  • An Unnatural Pursuit and Other Pieces

    (Book by Gray, Simon)

  • Rear Column, Dog Day

    (Book by Gray, Simon)

  • Otherwise Engaged
  • Colmain
  • Butley
  • The Last Cigarette: v. 3: The Smoking Diaries by Simon Gray (1-Nov-2008) Paperback
  • Butley
  • The Year of the Jouncer by Gray, Simon (2006) Paperback
  • (The Early Diaries: AND An Unnatural Pursuit: Including An Unnatural Pursuit and How's That for Telling 'Em, Fat Lady? ) Author: Simon Gray Jul-2010
  • Just the Three of Us by Gray, Simon (1999) Paperback
  • The Smoking Diaries: v. 1 by Gray, Simon (2008) Paperback
  • The Smoking Diaries by Gray, Simon (2004) Hardcover
  • Plays: One : Butley, Otherwise Engaged, the Rear Column, Quartermaine's Terms, the Common Pursuit (Methuens World Dramatists) (v. 1)
  • Playbill; Butley; AMerican Film Theatre, New York; 1974; Alan Bates, Jessica Tandy, Richard O'Callaghan
  • BUTLEY (Modern Plays) by Gray, Simon (May 27, 1988) Paperback
  • The Common Pursuit
  • The Smoking Diaries Volume 3: The Last Cigarette by Gray, Simon (2013) Paperback
  • Japes (Nick Hern Books Drama Classics) by Gray, Simon (2001) Paperback
  • (Enter a Fox: Further Adventures of a Paranoid ) Author: Simon Gray Mar-2005
  • Little Nell
  • (Little Nell) Author: Simon Gray published on (November, 2006)
  • The Smoking Diaries Volumes I - III
  • (The Year of the Jouncer ) Author: Simon Gray Aug-2008
  • (Simon Gray: Plays: v. 4: Common Pursuit; Holy Terror; After Pilkington; Old Flames; They Never Slept) Author: Simon Gray published on (July, 2010)
  • (Simon Gray: Plays: v. 1: Butley; Wise Child; Dutch Uncle; Spoiled; Sleeping Dog) Author: Simon Gray published on (July, 2010)
  • Butley
  • The Common Pursuit
  • (The Year of the Jouncer) Author: Simon Gray published on (November, 2006)
  • The Smoking Diaries: The Year of the Jouncer (v. 2) by Gray, Simon (2008) Paperback
  • Close of Play.
  • The Early Diaries: including An Unnatural Pursuit and How's That for Telling 'Em, Fat Lady? by Simon Gray (15-Jul-2010) Paperback
  • The Late Middle Classes by Gray, Simon (2011) Paperback
  • (Simon Gray: Plays: Vol 5: Cell Mates; Life Support; Just the Three of Us; Little Nell; the Old Masters; Japes; the Late Middle Classes) Author: Simon Gray published on (June, 2010)
  • Enter a Fox: Further Adventures of a Paranoid by Gray, Simon (2005) Paperback
  • Little Portia
  • REAR COLUMN AND OTHER PLAYS (Methuen Modern Plays)
  • (The Smoking Diaries: Year of the Jouncer v. 2 ) Author: Simon Gray Apr-2008
  • (The Last Cigarette: v. 3: The Smoking Diaries ) Author: Simon Gray Oct-2013
  • (The Smoking Diaries ) Author: Simon Gray Jul-2008

Membership

Member Dramatists Guild.

Interests

• Squash, watching cricket and football, tennis, swimming.

Connections

Married Beryl Mary Kevern, 1965 (divorced 1997). 2 children; Married Victoria Rothschild, 1997.

Father:

James Davidson Gray Davidson

Mother:

Barbara Cecelia Mary (Holliday) Davidson

Spouse:

Victoria Rothschild

Spouse:

Beryl Mary Kevern