A voyage round John Mortimer
By: Valerie Grove
Edition: 1st American ed.
Publisher: Viking
Published: 2008
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 542
ISBN-13: 9780670018802
Subjects: Lawyers; Biography; English Authors
Description: Novelist, playwright, and barrister Sir John Mortimer has led an extraordinarily rich and daring life, privately and professionally, much of it in the public eye. His own writings, including the wildly popular books in the Rumpole of the Bailey series, his three acclaimed volumes of autobiography, and his screenplay for Brideshead Revisited, have rewarded readers and viewers with insight and humor. Now, biographer Valerie Grove has been given full access to Mortimer, tracing his legal and literary career, from his first attempts at writing novels and plays, through his great triumphs in court, to the creation of the popular character Horace Rumpole. Mortimer's personal life--including his marriages and his many affairs--is as colorful as any fiction he's written. Correcting the many errors and half-truths found in a previous biography, Grove's book is essential reading for Mortimer's fans.--From publisher description.
Notes: Originally published in 2007.

Includes bibliographical references (p. [497]-498) and index.

"List of works": p. [491]-496.
Table of contents: title: 1; title: An Only Child -- 1 -- 2; title: The Clever Boy -- 25 -- 3; title: Among the Aesthetes -- 43 -- 4; title: Into Bohemia -- 59 -- 5; title: The Penelopiad -- 74 -- 6; title: Paterfamilias, inter alia -- 92 -- 7; title: Love and Lizards -- 108 -- 8; title: The Media Mortimers -- 128 -- 9; title: Losing a Father, Gaining a Son -- 143 -- 10; title: Had a Wife and Couldn't Keep Her -- 162 -- 11; title: Queen's Counsel and Farceur -- 175 -- 12; title: A Bachelor Life in Little Venice -- 195 -- 13; title: The Defence of Literature -- 212 -- 14; title: A New Penny Turns Up -- 230 -- 15; title: The Wizard of Oz -- 246 -- 16; title: Home Again to Turville Heath Cottage -- 265 -- 17; title: The Old Darling -- 283 -- 18; title: Lucid Indifference -- 303 -- 19; title: 'How are you with God?' -- 322 -- 20; title: No More Moaning of the Bar -- 342 -- 21; title: The Politics of Paradise -- 360 -- 22; title: Summer's Leases -- 371 -- 23; title: Scribble, Scribble, Scribble -- 389 -- 24; title: Penny Tells It Like It Is -- 408 -- 25; title: Nothing Like a Dormouse -- 429 -- 26; title: The Family Reunion-- 450.