Details: Muriel Gray

Broadcaster, journalist, and best-selling author Muriel Gray was born in Glasgow in 1958. After gaining an honours degree in art from Glasgow School of Art in 1979, her broadcasting career began in 1982 as a co-presenter of Channel 4's music show The Tube. This led to a twenty year career in television and radio, encompassing everything from the arts and entertainment to long running factual series and current affairs.

She set up her own production company in 1987, Gallus Besom, which later became Ideal World, from which IWC Media was formed. In addition to her broadcasting career, Muriel was the first woman rector of Edinburgh University, a post she served for three years.

Muriel began her writing career with a best selling mountaineering book in the late eighties entitled The First Fifty. In 1993 she published her first horror novel The Trickster, which was followed by Furnace and The Ancient, described by Stephen King as "the one thriller you have to read in 2001. Scary and un-putdownable."

Muriel lives in Glasgow with her husband and three children. After her family, her other passions are mountaineering, snowboarding, horror cinema and growing trees
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