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Stephen Wakelam is an English writer and playwright born in Chesterfield, Derbyshire.[1] After Cambridge University, he was an English Teacher and Head of Department in South Yorkshire until he became a full-time writer in 1976.[1] He was Young Writers' Tutor at the Royal Court Theatre from 1981-1984 and then tutored young playwrights at the National Theatre Studio in the 1990s.[1] He has written over forty performed plays, at first mainly in television then primarily on radio.[1] His subjects are almost exclusively biographical, covering a broad range of interests. Wakelam was The Royal Literary Society Writer in Residence at universities in Leeds and Kent, 2009-12.[1] From January 2015 he is Writer in Residence at St Cuthbert's Society, Durham.[1]

Selected works

• The Pattern of Painful Adventures
• Gaskin
• Coppers
• Angel Voices
• Circles of Deceit
• Deadlines
• Two Men from Delft
• Adulteries of a Provincial Wife
• Answered Prayers
• Death at the Bed End
• Punters
• Hard Knocks
• Selling Immortality
• The Finding
• The Good Samaritan
• To the Camp and Back
• Miss A and Miss M
• Letting the Birds Go Free
• Rainy Day
• Other Women
• Triangle at Rhodes
• Silver Lining
• Tea Leaf on the Roof
• The Fox
• Grassroots
• Released
• Time Passing
• What I Think of my Husband
• A Dose of Fame
• Living With Princes, on the life of Montaigne (2011)

References

External links

• Personal website
• Radio work

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