A VOYAGE ROUND JOHN MORTIMER. Valerie Grove (First US Edition Hardback) 2007

 

A Voyage Round John Mortimer by Valere Grove - A Biography of the Creator of Rumpole of the Bailey.

Novelist, playwright and barrister Sir John Mortimer has led an extraordinarily rich and daring life, privatel and professionally, muc of it in the public eye. His own writings, from the play A VOYAGE ROUND MY FATHER, later a movie starring Laurance Olivier, to his wildly popular books in the Rumpole series, to his three acclaimed volumes of autobiography have rewarded readers and viewers with insight and humour.

Now, for the first time, biographer Valerie Grove has been given full access to Mortimer. A VOYAGE ROUND JOHN MORTIMER traces Mortimer's legal and literary career, from his first attempts at writing novels and plays, and the early help he offered his barrister father, through his gresat triumphs in the courts to the creation of Horace Rumpole, one of the most popular characters in comtemporary fiction and television. Mortimer's personal life - including his marriages to Penelope Mortimer and Penelope II, and his many affairs - is as colourful as any fiction he's written.

A FIRST EDITION, AMERICAN hardback published by Viking in 2007

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