About Gary Ley
Born 1956. Gary Ley is a British writer.
Gary Ley (born 1956) is a Welsh novelist and sculpture technician. He is based in Rhossili on the Gower Peninsula, near Swansea.
Biography Born in Swansea in 1956, Gary Ley studied geography at university.
He had a career as a teacher and lecturer, before being involved in the setting up of a sculpture business in 1988. It deals with the subject of child abuse, employing flashbacks and having a narrative that moves between Texas and Wales.
In 2002 Ley published his second novel, Strange Tunnels Disappearing. It is set in the 1980s against the backdrop of the internal conflict in Peru; its main characters are a British aircraft salesman and a Peruvian politics lecturer associated with the Shining Path. The imagined persona of the 19th-century railway builder, Henry Meiggs, features prominently in the novel.
Ley has also had poems published in periodicals.
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Who is Gary Ley?
Novelist, poet
When was Gary Ley born?
Gary Ley was born in 1956 in Swansea.
What is Gary Ley's occupation?
Gary Ley is a writer.
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Gary Ley is British.
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