Stephen Wakelam is an English writer and playwright born in Chesterfield,

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. After

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, he was an English Teacher and Head of Department in

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until he became a full-time writer in 1976. He was Young Writers' Tutor at the

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from 1981-1984 and then tutored young playwrights at the

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in the 1990s. He has written over forty performed plays, at first mainly in television then primarily on radio. His subjects are almost exclusively biographical, covering a broad range of interests. Wakelam was The Royal Literary Society Writer in Residence at universities in

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and

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, 2009-12. From January 2015 he is Writer in Residence at St Cuthbert's Society,

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Selected works

*''

The Pattern of Painful Adventures ''The Pattern of Painful Adventures'' (1576) is a prose novel. A later edition, printed in 1607 by Valentine Simmes and published by Nathaniel Butter, was a source for William Shakespeare's play ''Pericles, Prince of Tyre''. There was at leas ...

'' *''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 Michel Eyquem, Seigneur de Montaigne ( ; ; ; 28 February 1533 – 13 September 1592), commonly known as Michel de Montaigne, was one of the most significant philosophers of the French Renaissance. He is known for popularising the essay as ...

(2011)

References

External links

Personal website
Living people Year of birth missing (living people) People from Chesterfield, Derbyshire English dramatists and playwrights English male dramatists and playwrights {{England-writer-stub