John Mortimer on Law, Literature, and the Art of Fiction
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Interviewed by Rosemary Herbert
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An interview with John Mortimer, the British barrister and author best known for creating the Rumpole of the Bailey series. The piece explores his dual life in law and literature, his eccentric upbringing as the child of a blind barrister father, his education at Harrow and Oxford, and his reflections on how divorce court practice equipped him for writing. Mortimer discusses his literary influences, his approach to writing, and the intersection of his legal career with his fiction.
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· 3 pulledNothing equips you more for a life in letters than a career in the divorce court.
I was brought up in the Inner Temple, in my parents' flat, and later in the Chiltern Hills, in a house and garden designed by my father.
My father was blind, and he used to recite Sherlock Holmes stories to me from memory on our long walks.
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