Temple, Robert (Kyle Grenville)

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TEMPLE, Robert (Kyle Grenville)

TEMPLE, Robert (Kyle Grenville). American, b. 1945. Genres: Plays/ Screenplays, Songs/Lyrics and libretti, Area studies, Classics, History, Intellectual history, Mythology/Folklore, Psychology, Sciences, Translations. Career: Second Look mag., senior editor, 1978-80; New Horizons Research Foundation, Canada, senior research fellow in history of science, 1985; BBC TV Documentary: Blind to Science; Byline: Richard Gregory, co-producer, 1989; Romanian Roulette, Channel 4 (UK) TV documentary, originator and production consultant, 1990; Frontiers of the Unknown, TV series, consultant, co-producer, and co-director, 1990-91;"Red Carpet" series, seven short films, producer and writer, 1993; British Aerospace PLC., consultant, 1991; Royal National Theatre, consultant, 1994. Publications: The Sirius Mystery, 1976, rev. ed., 1998; Goetter, Orakel, und Visionen, 1982; Strange Things, 1983; Conversations with Eternity, 1984; China: Land of Discovery and Invention (in U.S. as The Genius of China), 1986, reissued in U.K. as The Genius of China, 1991; Open to Suggestion: The Uses and Abuses of Hypnosis, 1989; He Who Saw Everything: A Verse Translation of the Epic of Gilgamesh, 1991; (with O. Temple) The Complete Fables of Aesop, 1995; Vision of the Grail (verse libretto), 1995; The Crystal Sun, 2000; Netherworld, 2002. Address: c/o David Higham Associates Ltd, 5-8 Lower John St, Golden Sq, London W1R 4HA, England. Online address: www.roberttemple.com

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