* in 1980 by Simon Raven for Thames Television starring Lucy Gutteridge, Rosalyn Landor, Michael Aldridge, Judi Dench, Vivian Pickles and Jean-Pierre Cassel -

* 12 – Simon Raven, 73, British writer.

Simon Arthur Noël Raven ( 28 December 1927 – 12 May 2001 ) was an English novelist, essayist, dramatist and raconteur who, in a writing career of forty years, caused controversy, amusement and offence.

A biography of Simon Raven, The Captain, written by Michael Barber, was published in 1996.

New York: Raven Press / Simon and Schuster, 1984.

The best known of recent residents was Simon Raven, the novelist.

The novel was adapted into a BBC mini-series by Simon Raven in 1968, starring Tristram Jellinek.

Comedian Norman Wisdom, writer Simon Raven, Television presenter Karl Pilkington and actors William Hartnell, Charles Hawtrey all lived or live in Deal.

Sam Simon and Edgar Allan Poe wrote the third segment, " The Raven ", and David Silverman directed it.

This was followed by a series of feuds with the Impact Players ( Lance Storm and Justin Credible ), Simon Diamond and Johnny Swinger, Joey Matthews and Christian York, and then Tommy Dreamer and Raven.

* The Best of Gerald Kersh ( 1960 ), edited by Simon Raven

The remaining five books, The Rivers of Zadaa ( 2005 ), The Quillian Games ( 2006 ), The Pilgrims of Rayne ( 2007 ), Raven Rise ( 2008 ), and The Soldiers of Halla ( 2009 ) were all originally published in hardback by Simon and Schuster.

With the more liberal society of the 1960s, the coeducational liberal arts ethos of the school became extremely fashionable, attracting many literary and artistic parents, including Lawrence Durrell, Simon Raven, Robert Graves, Cecil Day-Lewis, Peggy Guggenheim, Ted Hughes, Edna O ' Brien, John and Penelope Mortimer, Frederick Raphael, Joseph Losey, Peter Hall, Peter Brook, Laurence Olivier, Joan Plowright, Susan Hampshire, Jill Balcon, Mick Jagger, Jude Law, Pete Townshend, Sandie Shaw, Trevor Nunn, Jeremy Paxman, A.

1971 with a screenplay by Simon Raven which stayed true to the basic plot, but added sexual scenes and changed Ebony's wife's name from Nadia to Sylvia.

This was followed by a series of feuds with the Impact Players ( Lance Storm and Justin Credible ), Simon Diamond and Johnny Swinger, Joey Matthews and Christian York and then Tommy Dreamer and Raven.

* Feathers of Death from the novel by Simon Raven to be directed by Richard Attenborough

" For The Listener, Simon Raven believed that Fleming was a " kind of supersonic John Buchan ", but he was somewhat dismissive of the plot, observing that it is " a brilliant but improbable notion " that includes " a deal of champagne-drinking, bomb-throwing, relentless pitting of wits etc ... with a cretinous love-affair ".

The series was scripted by Simon Raven, based on Fox's maternal aunt Frances Donaldson's biography of the King, Edward VIII.

" began to imagine ," wrote St Simon, " that the King doubted his courage, and resolved to stake all at once in an effort to vindicate himself.

) Philosopher Simon Blackburn wrote a rejoinder to Stove, though a subsequent essay by Stove's protegee James Franklin's suggested that Blackburn's response actually " confirms Stove's central thesis that Darwinism can ' explain ' anything.

Kushner also wrote a response to Simon Wiesenthal's question of forgiveness in the book The Sunflower: On the Possibilities and Limits of Forgiveness.

In the early 1960s Simon wrote a paper responding to a claim by the psychologist Ulric Neisser that machines might be able to replicate ' cold cognition ', e. g. processes like reasoning, planning, perceiving, and deciding, but could not replicate ' hot cognition ', including desiring, feeling pain or pleasure, and having emotions.

Simon wrote many articles on the topic over the course of his life mainly focusing on the issue of decision-making within the behavior of what he termed “ bounded rationality ”.

Dr Simon Kraiz, an expert on Eastern European Jewry at the University of Haifa, pointed out that no Khazar writings have been found: " We know a lot about them, and yet we know almost nothing: Jews wrote about them, and so did Russians, Georgians, and Armenians, to name a few.

Simon Johnson wrote that " the reemergence of an American financial oligarchy is quite recent ," a structure which he delineated as being the " most advanced " in the world.

John Alan Simon wrote, produced and directed a film adaptation of Radio Free Albemuth.

Nazi-hunter Simon Wiesenthal wrote to organisers of a Swedish book fair to which Singer was invited that " A professor of morals ... who justifies the right to kill handicapped newborns ... is in my opinion unacceptable for representation at your level.

Justin wrote that nearly all the Samaritans in his time were adherents of a certain Simon of Gitta, a village not far from Flavia Neapolis.

In 1992 Simon Corble wrote a stage version with medieval songs and music for The Midsommer Actors ' Company.

Simon Reynolds wrote in his book Rip It Up and Start Again: Post Punk 1978 – 1984 that " The Residents and their ' representatives ' were one and the same ", elaborating on one of his blogs that " this was something that anybody who had any direct dealings with Ralph figured out sooner rather than later.

Enfield went to school with Simon Nye, who later wrote Men Behaving Badly.

Simon Grynée wrote to Martin Bucer in September 1531 that Anne was " young, good-looking, of a rather dark complexion ".

In his pioneering study, Bowling Alone: The Collapse and Revival of American Community ( Simon & Schuster, 2000 ), Harvard political scientist Robert D. Putnam wrote: " Henry Ward Beecher's advice a century ago to ' multiply picnics ' is not entirely ridiculous today.

Simon wrote most of the pair's songs, including three that reached No. 1 on the U. S. singles charts: " The Sound of Silence ", " Mrs. Robinson ", and " Bridge Over Troubled Water ".

Simon also wrote and starred in the film One-Trick Pony ( 1980 ) and co-wrote the Broadway musical The Capeman ( 1998 ) with the poet Derek Walcott.

Between 1957 and 1964, Simon wrote, recorded, and released more than 30 songs, occasionally reuniting with Garfunkel as Tom & Jerry for some singles, including " Our Song " and " That's My Story ".

It was paired with the motion picture of the same name, which Simon wrote and starred in.

In an attempt to return successfully to the music market, Simon wrote and recorded a new album very quickly, with You're the One arriving in October 2000.

Stephen Thomas Erlewine from Allmusic paid attention to the attempts of Simon in embracing his classic folk sound with Eno's electronic textures, and wrote that " Simon doesn't achieve his comeback by reconnecting with the sound and spirit of his classic work ; he has achieved it by being as restless and ambitious as he was at his popular and creative peak, which makes Surprise all the more remarkable.

In the late 1990s, Simon wrote and produced a Broadway musical called The Capeman, which lost $ 11 million during its 1998 run.

Simon also wrote all the songs in the film.

Uncut magazine's Simon Reynolds wrote of the band: " Once upon a time, a band from the North came with a sound so fresh and vigorous it took the nation by storm.