of the Dowt". Sunday Herald. SMG Sunday Newspapers Ltd., 25 April 2004. ProQuest. FindArticles.com (BNET). Web. 6 April 2009. (Book rev. of The Smoking Diaries.) Interviews Fort, Viola. "Simon Gray". Untitled Books. UntitledBooks.com, 6 June 2008. Web. 29 March 2009. ("His reflective, moving and often very funny memoirs have brought Simon Gray a whole new readership outside theatre circles. The third volume, The Last Cigarette, is a triumph. He tells Viola Fort how memory is an act of imagination.") Hattenstone, Simon. "Interview: Simon Gray: The Butt-ends of His Days". Guardian. Guardian Media Group, 28 July 2007. Web. 30 March 2009. ("His memoirs made him a poster boy for smoking, but at 70 playwright Simon Gray has finished the final volume and is finally cutting down, he tells Simon Hattenstone.") Obituaries and tributes Alberge, Dalya. "Simon Gray, Self-Deprecating Writer and Smoker Dies". Times, Obituary. News Corporation, 8 August 2008. Web. 29 March 2009. Billington, Michael. "Remembering Simon Gray". The Guardian. Guardian Media Group, 8 August 2008. Web. 29 March 2009. Gardner, Lyn. "Simon Gray: Playwright, Diarist and Novelist Who Bridged the Gulf between Intellectual and Popular Drama". The Guardian. Guardian Media Group, 7 August 2008. Web. 29 March 2009. Gould, Tony. "Appreciation: Simon Gray, 1936–2008: Smoker, Gambler, Teacher and Writer with an Enviable Gift for Friendship". Observer. Guardian Media Group, 10 August 2008. Web. 30 March 2009. "Simon Gray: Rakish and Versatile Playwright". Times Online, Obituaries. News Corporation, 8 August 2008. Web. 29 March 2009. Spencer, Charles. "Simon Gray: 'I will never forget his kindness' ". Daily Telegraph. Telegraph Media Group, 15 August 2009. Web. 30 March 2009. Strachan, Alan. "Simon Gray, Playwright, Novelist and Author of a Series of Hilarious Irascible Memoirs". Independent. Independent News & Media, 8 August 2008. Web. 29 March 2009. Weber, Bruce. "Simon Gray, Playwright, Dies at 71: Aimed Wit at Intellectuals, and Himself". New York Times, Obituary. New York Times Company, 8 August 2008. Web. 30 March 2009. Young, Josa. "The Late Great Simon Gray". The Huffington Post, 25 March 2009. Web. 29 March 2009. Performance reviews Theatre Record and its annual Indexes. External links Simon Gray Papers at the Harry Ransom Center Simon Gray articles index in the Guardian. English people of Scottish descent Commanders of the Order of the British Empire Dalhousie University alumni English memoirists Fellows of the Royal Society of Literature People educated at Westminster School, London Alumni of Trinity College,