John Mortimer

The NYPR Archive Collections | Jan 1, 2000

Lecture: A Voyage 'Round


From the NYPL Public Programs Brochure for Spring and Summer 1986:

John Mortimer is the celebrated and sometimes controversial British barrister, playwright and novelist who is best know in this country for his popular television series "Rumpole of the Bailey," his adaption of Evelyn Waugh's "Brideshead Revisited" and his memory play "A Voyage 'Round My Father." Last year saw the publication of the autobiography "Clinging to the Wreckage" and a new novel "Paradise Postponed," will appear in April.

He talks about his childhood and how he became a writer.


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