Garry O’Connor has worked as daily theatre critic for the Financial Times, and as a director for the RSC, before he became a fulltime writer. As novelist, biographer and playwright Garry has published many books on actors, literary figures, religious and political leaders, including Pope John Paul II and the Blairs. He has had plays performed at Edinburgh, Oxford, Ipswich, London and on Radio 4, and contributed dramatised documentaries to Radio 3, scripts and interviews for BBC 1, as well as having his work adapted for a three-part mini-series.
I Forget How Nelson Died, under the title Different Circumstances, was first staged in Oxford in 1974. The play is centred on a reimagined Lord Nelson and Lady Hamilton, relocated in place and time to a remote island paradise mid-twentieth century.