![]() įrayn grew up in Ewell, Surrey, and was educated at Kingston Grammar School. ![]() After the slump in asbestos prices, Frayn's sister supported the family by also working at Harrods, as a children's hairdresser. Violet was the daughter of a failed palliasse merchant having studied as a violinist at the Royal Academy of Music, she worked as a shop assistant and occasional clothes model at Harrods. He has also written philosophical works, such as The Human Touch: Our Part in the Creation of the Universe (2006).įrayn was born at Mill Hill, north London (then in Middlesex), to Thomas Allen Frayn, an asbestos salesman from a working-class family of blacksmiths, locksmiths and servants, in which deafness was hereditary, and his wife Violet Alice (née Lawson). ![]() ![]() His novels, such as Towards the End of the Morning, Headlong and Spies, have also been critical and commercial successes, making him one of the handful of writers in the English language to succeed in both drama and prose fiction. He is best known as the author of the farce Noises Off and the dramas Copenhagen and Democracy. ![]() Michael Frayn, FRSL ( / f r eɪ n/ born 8 September 1933) is an English playwright and novelist. ![]()
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