![]() ![]() ![]() Although lively, intelligent and remarkably frank for an authorized biography, Grove's latest will likely not create much of a stir in America, where Mortimer isn't a household name. His friends and collaborators include Stoppard, Pinter and Olivier, and he rolled along in his wheelchair at Prince Charles's wedding to Camilla. An indefatigable barrister, Mortimer handled landmark obscenity cases as a Queen's Counsel. Among his many publications are several volumes of Rumpole stories and a trilogy of political novels (Paradise Postponed, Titmuss Regained, and The Sound of. His father, Clifford, a brilliant lawyer who eventually went blind, was the major influence on Mortimer's life, and he dramatized him repeatedly, most notably as Rumpole and in his play A Voyage Round My Father ![]() John Mortimer's complex personal life includes expulsion from Oxford for suspected homosexuality courtship of his first wife, Penelope, when she was married and impregnating his second wife while still married to Penelope. Is himself a flamboyant barrister, prolific writer and compulsive womanizer. ), the creator of the loud and lovable fictional barrister Rumpole and the screenwriter for the television adaptation of Brideshead Revisited ![]()
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