Background
His father, Bladon Peake (1902–1972), was a theatre and film director
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Tony Peake
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Peake was educated at Waterkloof House Preparatory School in Pretoria, Saint Martin"s School in Johannesburg and at Rhodes University in Grahamstown, where he read History and English, graduating with a Bachelor (Honours) in English.
Career
Tony Peakewas born in Johannesburg, South Africa in 1951 to English parents. Peake moved to London in 1973. He worked as production manager at the Open Space Theatre under Charles Marowitz and Thelma Holt.
In the late seventies he lived for a while on Ibiza and taught English, History and Drama at the Morna Valley School.
Since then he has lived in London and Mistley and worked in modelling, acting, film distribution and latterly as a literary agent. As a short story writer and essayist, Peake has contributed to four volumes of Winter’s Tales (edited by Robin Baird-Smith, Constable), The Penguin Book of Contemporary South African Short Stories (edited by Stephen Gray), The Mammoth Book of Gay Short Stories (edited by Peter Burton, Robinson Publishing), New Writing 13 (edited by Toby Litt and Ali Smith, Picador), The Way We Are Now: gay and lesbian lives in the 21st century (a Stonewall (United Kingdom) anthology edited by Ben Summerskill, Continuum), Seduction (Serpent"s Tail), a themed anthology which he also edited, and Yes, I Am! Writing by South African Gay Men (compiled by Robin Malan & Ashraf Johaardien, Junkets Publisher, Cape Town).
