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Stephen Wakelam

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Stephen Wakelam is an English writer and playwright born in Chesterfield, Derbyshire.[1] After Cambridge University, he was an English Teacher and Head of Department in South Yorkshire until he became a full-time writer in 1976.[1] He was Young Writers' Tutor at the Royal Court Theatre from 1981-1984 and then tutored young playwrights at the National Theatre Studio in the 1990s.[1] He has written over forty performed plays, at first mainly in television then primarily on radio.[1] His subjects are almost exclusively biographical, covering a broad range of interests. Wakelam was The Royal Literary Society Writer in Residence at Universities in Leeds and Kent, 2009-12.[1] From January 2015 he is Writer in Residence at St Cuthbert's Society, Durham.[1]

Selected works

  • The Pattern of Painful Adventures
  • Gaskin
  • Coppers
  • Angel Voices
  • Circles of Deceit
  • Deadlines
  • Two Men from Delft
  • Adulteries of a Provincial Wife
  • Answered Prayers
  • Death at the Bed End
  • Punters
  • Hard Knocks
  • Brother to the Ox
  • Selling Immortality
  • The Finding
  • The Good Samaritan
  • To the Camp and Back
  • Miss A and Miss M
  • Letting the Birds Go Free
  • Rainy Day
  • Other Women
  • Triangle at Rhodes
  • Silver Lining
  • Tea Leaf on the Roof
  • The Fox
  • Grassroots
  • Released
  • Time Passing
  • What I Think of my Husband
  • A Dose of Fame
  • Living With Princes, on the life of Montaigne (2011)

References

  1. ^ a b c d e f "Bio". Retrieved 20 April 2015.