Paul Ableman

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Paul Ableman (13 June 1927-25 October 2006) was a British playwright and novelist. He was writer of much erotic fiction and novelisations, and a freelance writer who turned his hand to non-fiction.

He was born in Leeds into a Jewish family, and brought up mainly in New York. He settled in Hampstead, London.

Novels

I Hear Voices (1958)
As Near As I Can Get (1962)
Vac (1968)
The Twilight of the Vilp (1969)
Bits: Some Prose Poems (1969, poems)
The Mouth and Oral Sex (1969, psychology)
Tornado Pratt (1978, novel)
Porridge: The Inside Story (1979)
Shoestring (1979)
Shoestring's Finest Hour (1980)
County Hall (1982, novel)
The Doomed Rebellion (1983)
Straight Up: The Autobiography of Arthur Daley (1991)
Waiting for God (1994)

Plays

Green Julia (1966)
Tests (playlets) (1966)
Blue Comedy: Madly in Love, Hawk's Night (1968)