Frank Key

Frank Key
Key giving a reading in 2011
Key giving a reading in 2011
BornPaul Byrne
(1959-01-29)29 January 1959
Barking, Essex, United Kingdom[1]
Died13 September 2019(2019-09-13) (aged 60)
London, United Kingdom
OccupationWriter, broadcaster
NationalityBritish
EducationUniversity of East Anglia
Genreshort story, nonsense, satire
Website
hootingyard.org

Paul Byrne (29 January 1959 – 13 September 2019[2][3]), who used the pseudonym Frank Key, was a British writer, illustrator, blogger and broadcaster[4][5] best known for his self-published short-story collections and his long-running radio series Hooting Yard on the Air, which was broadcast weekly on Resonance FM from April 2004 until 2019.[6] Key co-founded the Malice Aforethought Press with Max Décharné and published the fiction of Ellis Sharp. According to one critic, "Frank Key can probably lay claim to having written more nonsense than any other man living."[7]

  1. ^ Clare 2014, p. 28.
  2. ^ Key, Frank. "An Important Anniversary". Hooting Yard. Resonance FM. Retrieved 19 September 2019.
  3. ^ "Frank Key RIP". Resonance FM. Archived from the original on 20 September 2019. Retrieved 19 September 2019.
  4. ^ "Welcome to Hooting Yard: The Exhibition". Menier Gallery. Retrieved 13 March 2020.
  5. ^ "Frank Key". The Dabbler. Retrieved 22 March 2012.
  6. ^ Edmund, Baxter. "Six Years of Hooting Yard". Archived from the original on 19 August 2014.
  7. ^ Jordison, Sam (15 November 2007). "I'm talking nonsense. In a good way". The Guardian.