Muriel Gray
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Muriel Gray (born 1959 in East Kilbride) is a Scottish journalist and broadcaster. A graduate of the Glasgow School of Art, she was an interviewer on the early Channel 4 alternative pop show The Tube from 1982 and presented The Media Show (1987-89) for the same channel.
Later she presented The Munro Show (which documented her climbing Scotland's highest hills, the Munros). She accompanied this with the book The First Fifty – Munro Bagging Without A Beard. She also presented Art Is Dead – Long Live TV. Gray writes a regular column in the Sunday Herald.
She is a former Rector of Edinburgh University, the only woman ever to have held this post, and in 2006 was made a Doctor of Letters when given an honorary degree from the University of Abertay Dundee.
She became a best selling horror novelist with the publication of her first novel The Trickster in 1995, which was followed by two more, Furnace and The Ancient. Stephen King, the famous horror author, described The Ancient as "Scary and unputdownable."
Gray started her own production company Ideal World in 1989, which took over Kirsty Wark's company Wark Clements in 2004. Gray and her partners then sold the new company in 2005 to media company RDF for an estimated twelve million pounds.
She has three children. In 1997 her daughter nearly drowned in a garden pond, which left her permanently brain damaged.
She is nicknamed "the gallus besom", a Scottish colloquialism which roughly means bold or daring loose woman.
[edit] Biblography
- Fiction
- The Trickster 1994 (shortlisted for the 1995 British Fantasy Society Best Novel prize)
- Furnace 1996
- The Ancient 2000
- Non fiction
- The First Fifty: Munro-bagging Without a Beard 1991
- These Times, This Place 2005
[edit] External links
- Gazatteer for Scotland biography
- List of articles by Gray in the Sunday Herald
- Biblography
- IWC biography
- Interview with morrissey 1987
| Persondata | |
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| NAME | Gray, Muriel |
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| SHORT DESCRIPTION | Scottish journalist |
| DATE OF BIRTH | 1959 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | East Kilbride, Scotland |
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