Simon Maginn is a British writer who has published five novels under his own name: Sheep, Virgins and Martyrs, A Sickness of the Soul, Methods of Confinement and Rattus which was published alongside a novella by Gary Fry entitled The Invisible Architect of Psychopathy. A film version of Sheep has been released as The Dark. The novels are horror/psychological thrillers, and are mostly out of print. He also writes satirical comedies as Simon Nolan, including As Good as it Gets, The Vending Machine of Justice and Whitehawk. 

January 1st, 1961 in (Age 63)