Alan Sharp
Alan Sharp ( born January 12, 1934 in Alyth, Perth and Kinross, Scotland, † February 8, 2013 in Los Angeles, California, United States) was a British novelist and screenwriter.
Life
Sharp was adopted with six weeks of a family that belonged to the Salvation Army. In his early working years, after dropping out of school at age fourteen, and before and after his military service from 1952 to 1954 at the British National Service, he worked in numerous professions, as an assistant to a detective, English teacher, construction worker, security officer and for IBM. During this time, he already wrote. Finally, he settled in London, where in 1963 a first screenplay was filmed by British television.
His first novel A Green Tree in Gedde, which appeared in 1965, received two years later, the price of the Scottish Arts Council. In the same year appeared The Wind Shifts, a third plant remained a design because Sharp moved to Hollywood and turned to screenwriting. Within a few years he put this six works for " telling stories full of complex entanglements and blows of fate " are evidence of his abilities and provide all-American characters and themes in the center. From the 1980s Sharp wrote mostly for television, but with detours into another successful feature film. His only attempt at directing in 1985, Little Treasures, was, however, less successful.
Sharp was married four times and had six children; from his association with fellow writer Beryl Bainbridge comes from the actress Rudi Davies.