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'''Nicholas Stuart Gray''' ([[October 23]], [[1922]], Scotland - [[1981]]) was a [[Great Britain|British]] actor and playwright, perhaps best known for his work in children's theatre in [[England]]. He was also an author of children's fantasy; he wrote over a dozen novels, several plays, and many short stories. [[Neil Gaiman]] has written that Gray "is one of those authors I loved as a boy who holds up even better on rereading as an adult."[http://www.neilgaiman.com/journal/2005/11/includes-special-guest-review.asp]
'''Nicholas Stuart Gray''' ([[October 23]], [[1922]], Scotland - [[1981]]) was a [[Great Britain|British]] actor and playwright, perhaps best known for his work in children's theatre in [[England]]. He was also an author of children's fantasy; he wrote a number of novels, a dozen plays, and many short stories. [[Neil Gaiman]] has written that Gray "is one of those authors I loved as a boy who holds up even better on rereading as an adult."[http://www.neilgaiman.com/journal/2005/11/includes-special-guest-review.asp]


==Selected children's plays==
==Selected children's plays==

Revision as of 07:28, 24 December 2006

Nicholas Stuart Gray (October 23, 1922, Scotland - 1981) was a British actor and playwright, perhaps best known for his work in children's theatre in England. He was also an author of children's fantasy; he wrote a number of novels, a dozen plays, and many short stories. Neil Gaiman has written that Gray "is one of those authors I loved as a boy who holds up even better on rereading as an adult."[1]

Selected children's plays

  • The Princess and the Swineherd (1952)
  • The Marvellous Story of Puss in Boots (1955)
  • Beauty and the Beast (1956)

Selected children's fiction

  • Grimbold's Other World (1963)
  • Over the Hills to Fabylon (1968)
  • A Wind From Nowhere (1978)
  • The Sorcerer's Apprentices (1986)