Gary Ley

Gary Ley
Born 1956 (age 5859)
Swansea
Nationality Welsh
Occupation writer, sculpture technician
Known for Taking Ronnie to the Pictures, Strange Tunnels Disappearing

Gary Ley (born 1956) is a Welsh novelist and sculpture technician.[1] He is based in Rhossili on the Gower Peninsula, near Swansea.[2]

Biography

Born in Swansea in 1956, Gary Ley studied geography at university.

He had a career as a teacher and lecturer, before being involved in the setting up of a sculpture business in 1988.[1]

His first novel, Taking Ronnie to the Pictures, was published in 1998, and is notable for having been a runner-up in Seren’s First Novel Competition.[3] It deals with the subject of child abuse, employing flashbacks and having a narrative that moves between Texas and Wales.[4][5]

In 2002 Ley published his second novel, Strange Tunnels Disappearing. It is set in the 1980s against the backdrop of the internal conflict in Peru; its main characters are a British aircraft salesman and a Peruvian politics lecturer associated with the Shining Path. The imagined persona of the 19th-century railway builder, Henry Meiggs, features prominently in the novel.[6][7]

Ley has also had poems published in periodicals.

Bibliography

References

  1. 1.0 1.1 "About the Artists". Sculpture Culture. Retrieved 2008-10-21.
  2. "Contact Us". Sculpture Culture. Retrieved 2008-11-26.
  3. "Authors: Ley, Gary". Seren. Retrieved 2008-04-23.
  4. "Taking Ronnie to the Pictures". GWales.com. Retrieved 2008-04-23.
  5. "Taking Ronnie to the Pictures". Seren. Retrieved 2008-04-23.
  6. "Strange Tunnels Disappearing". Amazon.co.uk. Retrieved 2008-04-23.
  7. "Strange Tunnels Disappearing". Seren. Retrieved 2008-04-23.