GRAY, Patience

GRAY, Patience. British, b. 1917. Genres: Architecture, Design, Food and Wine, Homes/Gardens, Horticulture, Ghost Writer. Career: British Department of Information, Foreign Office, Whitehall, England, secretary, 1939; Art and Entertainment Emergency Council, London, England, secretary, 1940; Hurlingham Home Guard School, London, secretary, 1941; Frit Danmark: Journal of Free Danes, Aldwych, England, secretary to editor, 1942; Festival of Britain, South Bank, England, research assistant, 1950-51; cofounder of a freelance research and writing firm, 1951-56. Royal College of Art, organizing secretary, 1951-55; Architectural Review, columnist, 1954; House & Garden, part-time editor, 1957; Observer, weekly column, "A Woman's Perspective," 1958-61. Designed gardens for architects in the 1950s. Publications: (ed. and ghostwriter) Indoor Plants and Gardens, 1952; (with P. Boyd) Plats du Jour, 1957; (co-trans.) Larousse Gastronomique (English-language ed.), 1961; Honey from a Weed: Fasting and Feasting in Tuscany, Catalonia, the Cyclades, and Apulia, 1986; Ring Doves and Snakes, 1989; (ed.) I. Davis, A Catalan Cookery book: A Collection of Impossible Recipes, 1999; Work, Adventures, Childhood, Dreams, 1999. Author of privately printed cookbook on Mediterranean food for Chinese cooks aboard Hong Kong-Australia route ships. Contributor of articles and book reviews to periodicals. Address: Masseria Spigolizzi, Presicce, 73054 Lecce, Italy.