![]() ![]() 2 Along with minor novels and plays, the works mentioned procured Gray a significant role in Scottish literature as well as the reputation of being the “universally acknowledged founding father“ of the renaissance in Scottish fiction. 1 The publishing of his first novel, Lanark, was followed by other major works like 1982, Janine (1984), A History Maker (1994), and his adventurous undertaking The Book of Prefaces (2000), as well as the political pamphlet Why Scots Should Rule Scotland (1992), to name a few. By that time, he had already begun writing the story of Duncan Thaw, yet between that and the final date of publishing lay more than two decades, in which he wrote plays for TV and the radio and also dedicated himself to painting, at which he himself gives special emphasis to his murals. ![]() ![]() A Life in Four Books was published in 1981 and brought a considerable amount of recognition to its author Alasdair Gray, who was born in Glasgow in December 1934, and graduated from Glasgow Art School in 1957. ![]()
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