Sir John Mortimer

Der britische Dramatiker. Die Stoffe seiner Dramen entstammen dem bügerlichen Mittelklassenmilieu der Gegenwart. Werke u.a.: "Die Mittagspause" (1960), "Collaborators" (1973), "Clinging to the Wreckage" (Autobiogr. 1982), "Paradise postponed" (R. 1985), "The Narrowing Stream" (1990), "Murderers and Other Friends" (Autobiogr. 1993), "Rumpole and the Younger Generation" (1996), "Felix in the Underworld" (1997), "The Sound of Trumpets" (1998), "The Summer of a Dormouse" (Autobiogr., 2000), "Where There's a Will" (2003), "Quite Honestly" (2005), "Rumpole and the Reign of Terror" (2006).