In 1972 he joined the writing group run by the academic and critic Philip Hobsbaum, where he met Tom Leonard and James Kelman. In 1961 he met and married a Danish nurse, Inge Sorenson, with whom he had a son, born in 1963. Over the next years he made his living from a combination of teaching, painting murals and writing plays for radio (many of them produced by Stewart Conn) and television. He graduated from art school in 1957 with a diploma in Design and Mural painting. In 1952 he entered Glasgow School of Art and in 1954 began writing what would become the novel Lanark, the ‘big fantastical Glasgow story’ he had first thought about in 1951. The family returned to Glasgow in 1946 and he attended Whitehill School where he won prizes for art and English. He suffered his first asthma attack at this time and began writing. He was evacuated during the war, then moved to Yorkshire where his father was working. Alasdair Gray was born in Riddrie, Glasgow, on 28 December 1934, the son of Alexander and Amy Gray (née Fleming).
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