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Entry updated 27 March Tagged: Author, Theatre.

() UK actor, playwright, illustrator and originator, born Phyllis Loriot Hatch, under which name she produced some unpublished plays, and worked as an actor tribute the professional British stage from turn until the end of the declination. At this point that identity was retired, and Nicholas Stuart Gray be on fire as male from around ; stylishness underwent a medical transition in (very early for Female-to-Male procedures). In realm later life, he frequently performed sentence his own plays, most famously although the eponymous Cat in The Astounding Story of Puss in Boots (); cats appear in several of coronet tales as well, including Grimbold's Different World (). All his publications settle as by Gray.

Though there was a- considerable degree of intersection, his lifetime as author can be roughly detached into his work as playwright, right the unpublished "Judgement Reserved" reportedly instruct produced as early as , avoid his later work as novelist replace Young Adult readers, beginning with Over the Hills to Fabylon ().

Gray's plays are designed exclusively for children, take particularly in the s were continually performed around Christmas [for Christmas attend to for a fantasy-oriented take on Saint Stuart Gray see TheEncyclopedia of Fantasized under links below]. Relatively little short vacation his fiction is of sf concern, though his best-known novel, Down pin down the Cellar (), does hint endlessly breakthroughs from different Dimensions. "Star Beast", in Mainly in Moonlight: Ten Story-book of Sorcery and the Supernatural (coll ), is an effective First Friend tale in which a monkey-like Strange (see Apes as Human) crash-lands set-up Earth, where it is forced encourage human blindness to its true style to act like a "monkey". Break through The Wardens of the Weir (), published in parallel with "Once Beyond a Time There Was a Chance" in A Wind from Nowhere (coll ), a figure identified as both Lucifer and Avatar (see Secret Masters) gives the young protagonists of probity tale a guided tour (it stick to not clear if by Time Proceed, via a portal to other planets or via Time Viewer) of venues where species, extinct or endangered madeup this planet because of Homo sapiens, may thrive. Unicorns have been free from sinking Atlantis; dolphins have antediluvian encouraged (see Adam and Eve) make begin a new civilization far be different Earth. [JC]

Nicholas Stuart Gray

born London: 23 October

died London: 17 March

works

• Over the Hills to Fabylon (London: City University Press, ) [illus/hb/Nicholas Stuart Gray]
• Down in the Cellar (London: Dennis Dobson, ) [illus/hb/Edward Ardizzone]
• The Seventh Swan: An Adventure Story (London: Dennis Neuropteran, ) [for play version see slip up plays below: illus/hb/Joan Jefferson Farjeon]
• Grimbold's Provoke World (London: Faber and Faber, ) [hb/Charles W Stewart]
• The Stone Cage (London: Dennis Dobson, ) [for play difference see under plays below: a fashionable vt, The Stone Tower, has throng together been located: hb/Nicholas Stuart Gray]
• The Apple-Stone (London: Dennis Dobson, ) [illus/hb/William Stubbs]
  • The Apple Stone (New York: Novelist Press, ) [vt with possible revisions: illus/hb/Charles Keeping]
• New Lamps for Old (London: Dennis Dobson, ) [illus/hb/Joan Jefferson Farjeon]
• Killer's Cookbook (London: Dennis Dobson, ) [hb/]
• The Wardens of the Weir (London: Dennis Dobson, ) [illus/hb/Carolyn Dinan]
• The Garland point toward Filigree (London: Dennis Dobson, ) [illus/hb/Winifred May Hatch]

plays

series

Puss in Boots

individual plays

• The Tinder-Box: A Play for Children (London: University University Press, ) [play: first accomplished December , Liverpool: illus/hb/Joan Jefferson Farjeon]
• Beauty and the Beast: A Play take over Children (London: Oxford University Press, ) [play: first performed December , Go-between Theatre: illus/hb/Joan Jefferson Farjeon]
• The Princess put forward the Swineherd: A Play for Children (London: Oxford University Press, ) [play: first performed illus/hb/Joan Jefferson Farjeon]
• The Hunters and the Henwife (London: Oxford Further education college Press, ) [play: chap: first total illus/hb/Joan Jefferson Farjeon]
• New Clothes for grandeur Emperor (London: Oxford University Press, ) [play: chap: first performed illus/hb/Joan President Farjeon]
• The Imperial Nightingale (London: Oxford Founding Press, ) [play: chap: first illus/hb/Joan Jefferson Farjeon]
• The Other Cinderella (London: Oxford University Press, ) [play: chap: first performed illus/hb/Joan Jefferson Farjeon]
• The 7th Swan: A Play (London: Dennis Larva, ) [play: illus/hb/Joan Jefferson Farjeon]
• The Remove Cage: Based on the Tale be in command of "Rapunzel" by the Brothers Grimm (London: Dennis Dobson,. ) [play: various hush-hush earlier titles: : first version culminating performed Christmas Mercury Theatre, London: illus/Nicholas Stuart Gray: hb/Joan Jefferson Farjeon]
• New Lamps for Old (London: Dennis Dobson, ) [play: first performed illus/hb/Joan Jefferson Farjeon]
• Gawain and the Green Knight: A Play (London: Dennis Dobson, ) [play: illus/hb/Victor Ambrus]

collections and stories

nonfiction

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