Paul Ableman

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

Ableman was born in Leeds, Yorkshire, into a Jewish family, and brought up mainly in New York. He settled in Hampstead, London in the United Kingdom. His father was a tailor and his mother was a small-time actress. Ableman was married 2 times, first to Tina Carrs-Brown in 1958, they had 1 son, then divorced; then to Sheila Hutton-Fox in 1978, they had 1 son, she was married to Paul until his death in 2006.

Ableman had Jewish, Russian and German ancestry, Russian on his paternal side and German on his maternal side, Jewish was his whole families religion.

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)

Bibliography

* [http://www.nndb.com/people/085/000114740/ nndb.com]

External links

* [http://news.independent.co.uk/people/obituaries/article1943318.ece Obituary in "The Independent", 31 October 2006]
* [http://www.doollee.com/PlaywrightsA/ableman-paul.html]
* [http://books.guardian.co.uk/obituaries/story/0,,1967440,00.html Obituary in "The Guardian", 8 December 2006]