Gillian Freeman (1929–2019)
Autore di The Leather Boys
Sull'Autore
Gillian Freeman was born in London, England on December 5, 1929. She graduated from the University of Reading in 1951. Before becoming an author, she worked as copywriter and schoolteacher. Her first novel, The Liberty Man, was published in 1955. Her other novels included Fall of Innocence, Jack mostra altro Would Be a Gentleman, The Leather Boys, The Leader, The Alabaster Egg, and Nazi Lady: The Diaries of Elisabeth von Stahlenberg, 1933-1948. She wrote several screenplays including The Leather Boys and That Cold Day in the Park. She also wrote scenarios for Kenneth MacMillan's ballets Mayerling and Isadora. She died from complications of dementia on February 23, 2019 at the age of 89. (Bowker Author Biography) mostra meno
Opere di Gillian Freeman
The confessions of Elisabeth von S. : the story of a young woman's rise and fall in Nazi society (1978) 21 copie
The Girl on a Motorcycle [1968 film] — Writer — 7 copie
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Informazioni generali
- Altri nomi
- George, Eliot (pseudonym)
Stahlenberg, Elisabeth von (pseudonym) - Data di nascita
- 1929-12-05
- Data di morte
- 2019-02-23
- Sesso
- female
- Nazionalità
- England
UK - Luogo di nascita
- London, England, UK
- Luogo di morte
- London, England, UK
- Causa della morte
- complications of dementia
- Istruzione
- University of Reading
- Attività lavorative
- novelist
screenwriter
journalist
copywriter
teacher - Relazioni
- Thorpe, Edward (husband)
- Breve biografia
- Gillian Freeman was born in London, England, a daughter of Jack Freeman, a dentist and physician, and his wife Freda. She attended Francis Holland School in London and Lynton House school in Maidenhead. She read English and philosophy at the University of Reading and graduated with honors in 1951. She then worked as a copywrighter in an advertising agency, as a schoolteacher in the East End of London, and as a reporter for the North London Observer. She wrote her debut novel, The Liberty Man, published in 1955, while working as a literary secretary to novelist Louis Golding. That same year, she married Edward Thorpe, a novelist and the ballet critic of the Evening Standard, with whom she had two daughters. One of Freeman's best-known books was the groundbreaking novel The Leather Boys (1961), published under the pseudonym Eliot George, a story of a marriage between two young working-class men. It was adapted into a 1964 film for which she wrote the screenplay under her own name. In 1978, she published a fictional work called Nazi Lady: The Diaries of Elisabeth von Stahlenberg, 1938–1948, which many readers believed was genuine. Freeman wrote more fiction, including an historical novel, The Alabaster Egg (1970); other screenplays including That Cold Day in the Park (1969), directed by Robert Altman; the scenarios for two ballets by Kenneth MacMillan, Mayerling and Isadora Duncan; and the collection of interviews Ballet Genius (with Thorpe, 1988). Her last book was the novel But Nobody Lives in Bloomsbury (2006).
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Statistiche
- Opere
- 18
- Opere correlate
- 2
- Utenti
- 247
- Popolarità
- #92,310
- Voto
- 3.1
- Recensioni
- 3
- ISBN
- 40