Chris Hannan
(born 1958 - ) - Clydebank
Playwright and novelist Chris Hannan was born in Clydebank in 1958. He attended St Brendon's Primary School in Glasgow, then the Jesuit St Aloysius College. After graduating from Oxford University at the age of 20, he returned to Glasgow, first working in a homeless shelter and then becoming a full-time writer. He has written a number of plays which have been performed by the likes of the National Theatre of Scotland and the Royal Shakespeare Company, and has adapted the novels from Henrik Ibsen and Maxim Gorky for the stage.
Hannan has now turned his hand to prose, and his first novel, Missy, was published in April 2008.
He lives in Edinburgh with his wife Sarah.
- Missy
California, 1862. Dol, an irrepressible young girl, hitches a wagon with a gaggle of friends, headed east for new adventures. But on the road an act of kindness saving a man from suicide invites her own destruction. The man is a murderous pimp, who resents being rescued, and decides to take revenge. Dol has problems aplenty. - Shining Souls
It's Ann's wedding day, but she's in two minds who to marry, and caught between two men in her life, both called Billy. Her daughter wants to save souls, and then there's Nanette and her friend Prophet John. Soon, there's nine characters in search of their souls, some sex and a wardrobe.
Bibliography
Plays
- The Baby - 1990
- The Evil Doers - 1990
- Elizabeth Gordon Quinn - 1995
- Shining Souls - 1996
Fiction
- Missy - 2008