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Name: John Mortimer
Field:
Writer
Productions:
Dear Scheherazade- Gabrielle Drake is Mrs. Gaskell
An Audience with Colin Dexter - Morse and Me
The Knicker Lady
Dylan Thomas and Friends - Philip Madoc
An Audience with Denis Norden
Biography: Sir John Mortimer is a playwright, novelist and former practising barrister.
During the war he worked with the Crown Film Unit and published a number of novels before turning to theatre. He has written many film scripts and plays for both radio and television, including 'A Voyage Round My Father', 'The Rumpole' plays which won him the British Academy Writer of the Year Award, and the adaptation of Evelyn Waugh’s 'Brideshead Revisited'.
He has published three omnibus editions of his Rumpole stories, as well as
'The Trials of Rumpole', 'Rumpole for the Defence', 'The Best of Rumpole', and
'Rumpole and the Angel of Death'.
Also published in Penguin are two volumes of his acclaimed autobiography 'Clinging to the Wreckage', and 'Murderers and Other Friends'.
His many novels include 'Summer’s Lease', 'Paradise Postponed', 'Titmuss Regained', which have been made into successful television series, 'The Sound of Trumpets', a satirical novel about New Labour and 'Summer of a Dormouse', a poignant, frank and vivid testimony to the pleasures and pains of old age. His most recent book is 'Rumpole Rests His Case'. Film scripts include Zeferelli’s 'Tea with Mussolini'.
He lives with his wife and their youngest daughter in what was once his father’s house in the Chilterns. He received a knighthood for his services to the arts in the 1998 Queens’ Birthday Honours List.
John Mortimer is available for after dinner and corporate events.
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