Playwright, Novelist (21-Apr-1923 — 16-Jan-2009)

SUBJECT OF BOOKS

Valerie Grove. A Voyage Round John Mortimer. Viking Press. 2007. 542pp.

Graham Lord. John Mortimer: The Devil's Advocate: The Unauthorised Biography. Orion Books. 2005. 326pp. Also released as The Secret Lives of Rumpole's Creator.

John Mortimer. Clinging to the Wreckage: A Part of Life. Ticknor & Fields. 1982. 200pp.

John Mortimer. The Summer of a Dormouse. New York: Viking Press. 2000. 192pp.

AUTHORITIES

Below are references indicating presence of this name in another database or other reference material. Most of the sources listed are encyclopedic in nature but might be limited to a specific field, such as musicians or film directors. A lack of listings here does not indicate unimportance -- we are nowhere near finished with this portion of the project -- though if many are shown it does indicate a wide recognition of this individual.

1. NNDB [link]

2. Encyclopaedia Britannica Online [link]

3. Internet Movie Database [link]

4. Internet Broadway Database [link]

5. Wikipedia [link]

6. Library of Congress Name Authority [link]

7. New York Public Library Literature Companion (p.171)

8. World Authors 1950-1970 (pp.1031-33)

9. Hutchinson Paperback Dictionary of Biography (p.355)

10. The Reader's Encyclopedia of World Drama (p.586)

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