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Paul Ableman Biography (1927-)

Born June 13, 1927, in Leeds, Yorkshire, England; married; children: one son.Addresses: Agent: Jonathan Clowes Ltd., 22 Prince Albert Rd., LondonNW1 7ST, England.

Nationality

English

Occupation

writer

Birth Details

June 13, 1927

Leeds, Yorkshire, England

Famous Works

• Credits; Plays
• (With Gertrude Macauley) Even His Enemy, produced in London as Letters to a Lady, 1951, published by Samuel French, 1948.
• Help!, produced in London, 1963.
• One Hand Clapping, produced in Edinburgh, Scotland, 1964.
• Dialogues, produced in London, 1965.
• Green Julia, produced in Edinburgh and London, both 1965, Washington, DC, 1968, and New York City, 1972, published by Grove, 1966.
• Tests (sketches), published by Methuen, 1966.
• Emily and Heathcliff, produced in London, 1967.
• Blue Comedy: Madly in Love, Hank's Night, produced in London, 1968, published by Methuen, 1968, and in Modern Short Comedies from Broadway and London, edited by Stanley Richards, Random House, 1969.
• The Black General (adapted from William Shakespeare's play, Othello), produced in London, 1969.
• Little Hopping Robin, produced in New York City, 1973.
• And Hum Our Sword, produced in London, 1973.
• The Visitor, produced in London, 1974.
• Windsor All-Sorts, produced in London, 1977.
• Also author of television plays, including Barlowe of the Car Park, 1961; That Woman Is Wrecking Our Marriage, 1969; Visit from a Stranger, 1970; The Catch in a Cold, 1970; The Wrong 'Un (adapted from a work by Michael Brett), 1983; Love Song (adapted from a novel by Jeffrey Archer), 1985; and the series A Killing on the Exchange,1987. Author of the radio play The Infant, 1974.
• Credits; Novels
• I Hear Voices, Olympia Press, 1958.
• As Near as I Can Get, Spearman, 1962.
• Vac, Gollancz, 1968.
• The Twilight of the Vilp, Gollancz, 1969.
• Tornado Pratt, Gollancz, 1977.
• Shoestring (adapted from a television play), BBC Publications, 1979.
• Porridge: The Inside Story (adapted from a television play), Pan Books, 1979.
• Shoestring's Finest Hour, BBC Publications, 1980.
• County Hall (adapted from a television series), BBC Publications,1982.
• Hi-De-Hi (adapted from a television series), BBC Publications, 1983.
• Coauthor of London Consequences, Greater London Arts Association for the Festivals of London, 1972.
• Credits; Other
• (Translator with Veronica Hull) Simone Lacourture, Egypt, Vista, 1963, Viking, 1963.
• Bits: Some Prose Poems, Latimer Press, 1969.
• The Mouth and Oral Sex, Running Man Press, 1969, published as The Mouth, Sphere, 1972, and as The Sensuous Mouth, Ace Books, 1972.
• Anatomy of Nakedness, Orbis, 1982, published as The Banished Body, Sphere, 1984, and as Beyond Nakedness, Elysium, 1986.
• The Doomed Rebellion, Zomba, 1983.
• Contributor to Transatlantic Review and Men Only.

Further Reference

Books

• Contemporary Authors, New Revision Series, Volume 12, Gale, 1984,p. 16.
• Contemporary Dramatists, St. James Press, 1988, pp. 4-6.