Stephen Gilbert | |
|---|---|
| Born | 22 July 1912 Newcastle, County Down |
| Died | 23 June 2010 (aged 97) Carrickfergus, County Antrim |
| Education | Loretto School, Musselburgh |
| Occupation | Novelist |
| Notable work | Ratman's Notebooks (1968) |
| Movement | Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament |
Stephen Gilbert (22 July 1912 – 23 June 2010) was a Northern Irish novelist, businessman and nuclear disarmament activist. On the strength of his early novels in the 1940s, Gilbert was accounted by E. M. Forster as "a writer of distinction", but he is chiefly remembered as the author of Ratman's Notebooks (1968) which sold over 1 million copies and was twice made into a horror film named Willard (1971 and 2003) in the United States.[1][2]