JLF 2022: Mother's Boy: A Writer's Beginnings
Channel: British Library
Date: 2023-03-30

This event took place on 11 June 2022. The information below is correct as of the publication date.

Booker Prize-winning writer, Howard Jacobson, illuminates the course of his life, the beginnings “as well as the twists and turns” that led to his becoming a writer, in the candid and poignant memoir, Mother’s Boy: A Writer’s Beginnings. In an exploration of the idea of belonging, being both English and Jewish, through the growing pains of childhood, bittersweet memories and experiences as an adult, Jacobson allows a precious window into the mind, motivations and craft of a writer. Jacobson discusses the journey of understanding oneself and becoming “the writer you were meant to be” with publisher Alexandra Pringle.

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