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Alan Sharp


Born
in Alyth, Perthshire, Scotland
January 12, 1934

Died
February 08, 2013

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Alan Sharp was a Scottish novelist and screenwriter. He published two novels in the 1960s, and subsequently wrote the screenplays for about twenty films, mostly produced in the United States.

Sharp was raised in Greenock, Scotland, the son of a single mother, and he was adopted at the age of six weeks by Margaret and Joseph Sharp, a shipyard worker. His adoptive parents belonged to a Salvation Army church.

His first novel, A Green Tree in Gedde, was published in 1965 to acclaim and won the 1967 Scottish Arts Council Award. It was banned in Scotland for a time due to its sexual content. It was the first part of a proposed trilogy, and Sharp published the second novel, The Wind Shifts, in 1967. The third novel, which had the working
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Average rating: 4.0 · 22 ratings · 3 reviews · 3 distinct works
A Green Tree in Gedde

3.95 avg rating — 19 ratings — published 1965 — 18 editions
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The Wind Shifts

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A Sense of Belonging to Sco...

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“Paris is quite a place, to look at as well as the people. I suppose it's because so much has happened here and you know it even if you don't know what it is. In Greenock you know nothing ever happened nor ever will happen, in the historical sense I mean, so you look at it differently, or you don't look at it at all.”
Alan Sharp, A Green Tree in Gedde

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