Alasdair Gray

Alasdair Gray was born on December 28th, 1934, in Glasgow and was a Scottish novelist, playwright, and artist. 
In 1952, he was accepted into the Glasgow School of Art. He went on to work as a muralist and a scene painter for local theatres. Mural making, the temporality of materials and ideas, would have a profound impact on his artistic life. Gray would always describe himself as ‘an artist who fell into writing’. Throughout the 1960s and ’70s he wrote plays for television, radio, and the stage, all while working on a novel that would be decades in the making. When he finally published Lanark, his first book, it was hailed as a landmark of Scottish literature.