Alasdair Gray is Scotlands best known polymath. Born 1934 in Glasgow; he graduated in design and mural art from Glasgow School of Art in 1957. After decades of surviving by painting and writing TV and radio plays; his first novel; the loosely autobiographical; blackly fantastic Lanark; opened up new imaginative territory for such varied writers as Jonathan Coe; A.L. Kennedy; James Kelman; Janice Galloway and Irvine Welsh. It led Anthony Burgess to call him the most important Scottish writer since Sir Walter Scott. His other published books include 1982 Janine; Poor Things (winner of the Whitbread Award); The Book of Prefaces; The Ends of our Tethers and Old Men in Love. In this book; with reproductions of his murals; portraits; landscapes and illustrations; Gray tells of his failures and successes which have led his pictures to be accepted by a new generation of visual artists.
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