Life
1915-[?]; b. Dublin; worked backstage at Gate in 1930s; married (briefly)
to Edna O’Brien; issued
biography of James Joyce; novels include He Had My Heart Scalded
(1945), on a Dublin childhood; The Voyage of the Mayflower (1950),
selling 5 million copies; filmed, US; plays incl. She Sits Smiling,
Call Me Daddy, Cry for Help, and Eileen O’Roon; contrib.
to Envoy in 1949; a memorial service at Westminster Abbey attended
by a large number of his journalist-peers; Gébler is the subject
of an autobiographical study of troubled father-son relations by Carlo Gebler.
DIW
Works
Novels, A Week in the Country;
The Love Investigator; The Old Man and the Girl; Hoffmann
(published in England as Shall I Eat You?); Not the End
of the World [1987?].
Plays, She Sits smiling; The Spaniard in Galway; Eileen O’Roon (on BBC TV as Why Aren’t you Famous?); A Cry for Help; Call Me Daddy. Screenplays, Hoffman, The Girl with Green Eyes (The Lonely Girl, Edna O’Brien); television drama, Call Me Daddy; Women can be Monsters; Why Aren’t you Famous; Where Will I Find What Will Change my Life?; A Little Milk of Human Kindnesss.
- ‘Shirley Kelly, interview with Carlo Gebler, 'The Poison from the Past', in Books Ireland (September 2000): 211-12.
Notes
Not to be confused with Stan Gébler Davies, author of James Joyce:
A Portrait of the Artist (London: Davis-Poynter 1975).
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