John Mortimer Summary

Best known for his Rumpole of the Bailey television series, John Clifford Mortimer (born 1923) was a noted and prolific writer of novels, stories, and plays for radio, stage, television, and film, as ... Read more

John Mortimer has had an unusually wide range of parallel careers. A successful career at the bar was initially accompanied by his emergence as a novelist. Briefly associated by critics as a part of t... Read more

Biography EssayJohn Mortimer has said that comedy "is the only thing worth writing about in this despairing world," which "is far too serious to be described in terms that give us no opportunity to la... Read more