I was intrigued by just how different the two could be, and after listening to the audiobook of Ritual, I was left very much surprised and enjoyed the experience. I came to know of Ritual through the film that came to be based on it, the cult classic The Wicker Man. Sunday Times (London), October 19, 1980.An Engaging Inspiration for The Wicker Man.Contemporary Authors New Revision Series, Volume 19, 1986.There'll Always Be an England, Blond & Briggs, 1983.With My Body, Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 1968.Author of Lightfall, 1967 Cardinal Richelieu, 1976 A Square on the Hypotenuse, 1976 The Ex-Patriot? 1977 Talleyrand, Prince of Traitors, 1978 Keir Hardie, 1978 Drink to Me Only, 1978 The Last Englishman, 1979 and FingsAin't What They Used to Be, 1979.Also author of Leonora and The Sea Horse, both 1982 and two episodes ofCrown Court, 1978.Juliet and Romeo, Sud Deutscher Rundfunk, 1976.
Also author of Lightning at a Funeral, Stanford University, 1970 Marriages, London Academy of Music and Dramatic Art, London, 1972 Cartoon (one-act), Soho Polytechnic, London, 1973 An Evening With the Greater London Council(one-act), Soho Polytechnic, 1974 Revelations, produced in Grinnell, IA, 1976 The Teddy Bears' Picnic, 1988 Skin Deep, 1989 and The Last Englishman, 1990.Screwball, Theatre Royale, Plymouth, England, 1982.Shakebag, Soho Polytechnic, 1976, published in Green River Review, 1976.
Fanghorn, produced at Traverse Theatre, Edinburgh, Scotland, then FortuneTheatre, London, both 1967, published by Penguin, 1966.Dickon, produced at Queens Theatre, Hornchurch, England, 1966, publishedby Penguin, 1964.Constable in the information room, Robbery, Embassy, 1967.Penrose, 1975 The Prince Regent,1979 Henry V, 1979 and Fame Is the Spur, 1982.
Full name, David John Pinner born October 6, 1940, in Peterborough, England son of Richard and Dorine Helen (Matthews) Pinner married Catherine Henry Griller (an actress), Octochildren: Honor Linton, Dickon John.