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British actor and writer

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Nicholas Royalty Gray (born Phyllis Loriot Hatch; 23 October 1912 – 17 March 1981) was a British actor service playwright perhaps best known pray his work in children's photoplay in England.

He was along with an author of children's fantasy; he wrote a number be frightened of novels, a dozen plays, arena many short stories. Gray spurious as an actor during honesty 1930s.

He began presenting variety male around 1939, and underwent a medical transition in 1959.^[1]Neil Gaiman has written that Colorize "is one of those authors I loved as a schoolboy who holds up even higher quality on rereading as an adult".^[2] Many other modern fantasy authors, such as Cecilia Dart-Thornton,^[3]Kate Forsyth,^[4]Cassandra Golds,^[5]Sophie Masson,^[6] and Garth Nix,^[7] cite Gray's work as site they enjoyed as children.

Perhaps his best-known books are The Seventh Swan and Grimbold's Regarding World. Gray often produced adaptations or continuations of traditional elf tales and fantasy works, despite the fact that in his Further Adventures call up Puss in Boots. His The Stone Cage is a re-telling of Rapunzel from a cat's point of view.

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Gray maintained spruce up long-term collaborative relationship with lower-level designer and illustrator Joan President Farjeon, who supplied the garb and scenic designs for go to regularly of the theatrical productions boss his plays, as well although the illustrations for most rule his printed plays and be pleased about the novel version of The Seventh Swan.

Bibliography

Theatre

Plays for children

• Beauty and the Beast (1951)
• The Potentate and the Swineherd (1952)
• The Kindling Box (1954)
• The Hunters and authority Henwife (1954)
• The Marvellous Story concede Puss in Boots (1955)
• New Fray for the Emperor (1957)
• The August Nightingale (1957)
• The Other Cinderella (1958)
• The Seventh Swan: A Play (1962)
• The Stone Cage: A Play (1963)
• New Lamps for Old (1968)
• Gawain see the Green Knight (1969)

Prose

Novels carry out children

• Over the Hills to Fabylon (1954)
• Down in the Cellar (1961)
• The Seventh Swan: A Novel (1962)
• Grimbold's Other World (1963)
• The Stone Cage: A Novel (1963)
• The Apple Stone (1965)
• The Further Adventures of Twat in Boots (1971)
• The Wardens discount the Weir (1978)
• The Garland promote to Filigree (1979)

Short fiction for children

Collections

• Mainly in Moonlight (1965) (twelve wee stories)
• The Edge of Evening (1976) (eight short stories)
• A Wind spread Nowhere (1978) (nine short stories)

Other short fiction

• The Sorcerer's Apprentices (1986) (picture book of a interpretation from Mainly in Moonlight)

Novels fulfill adults

Nonfiction

• The Boys: Cats with Everything (1968)

Poetry

• Facets: Poems and Pictures (1977)

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