...to make erudite entertainer Fry contemplate gassing himself, then decide to flee to Bruges instead. He abandoned ship on Simon Gray’s play Cell Mates in 1996, leaving co-star Rik Mayall furious and the playwright penning a 126-page “hate letter” while...
...contemporary thinkers. Biography and autobiography have given me most reading pleasure this year. First and foremost, Simon Gray's brilliant, poignant diaries, The Last Cigarette and the posthumous Coda (Granta/Faber). Julian Barnes's candid exploration...
...provocative questions is AboveTopSecret.com (better known as ATS). It was launched in 1997 by an inquisitive teenager named Simon Gray of Swindon, England. As word spread and the site's discussion board kept on growing, a passionate hobby evolved into...
...often written in an attempt to keep life, or in this case death, under control for as long as possible. Over the past 20 years Simon Gray, who died in August, published a sequence of eight autobiographical books including, since 2004, The Smoking...
...valedictory from Simon Gray, who died in August, is a delight, full as it is of all that is best and worst about human nature: hatred, fear, joy, generosity, compassion, honesty. In it, he is facing up to the end of 60 years of smoking, so a certain...
...nurtured, self-deprecatory public image – have pursued so many careers, all involving ferociously committed hard graft, as Simon Gray. Successful as academic, novelist and dramatist for stage, television and radio, he found in several volumes as a...
...with one of his 60 a day: 'I don't know how to relax. I'm very bored by myself except when I'm working' Photo: MARTIN POPE Simon Gray , who has died aged 71 , was a prolific playwright of black comedies, and thrived off professional and personal...
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Simon James Holliday Gray CBE (born October 21, 1936) is an English playwright.
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