Full name: Murderers and Other Friends: Another Part of Life

Author: John Mortimer Year: 1994 Rank: Rating: Original Rating: Pop Rating: Genres/categories: Biographies, Non Fiction Purchase/reserch links: LibraryThing Goodreads Amazon ISBNs: 9780140248005 9781491537831 0140248005 1491537833

As a boy, John Mortimer wanted to be an actor, as a young man a writer, but at his father's suggestion he also pursued a career in law - in which, as a defending barrister, he found himself establishing profound but short-term friendships with those accused of various crimes, including murder. The chief lesson he learned from all this was to refrain from judgment, a quality he maintained in his other life. For alongside his work as a lawyer, Mortimer indulged a passion for writing. As this second career took over his life, it brought enriching yet frequently volatile friendships: with Tony Richardson, John Gielgud, Harold Pinter, David Niven, and Neil Kinnock, among others, from the worlds of theater, film, the law, and politics. John Mortimer brought his two worlds together in the character of Rumpole, for whom his creator is frequently mistaken. Murderers and Other Friends is John Mortimer's summing up of himself through his friends. With wit, wisdom, and tenderness he has written the story of the second part of his life, of the strangely assorted characters that enriched it, and of his family at its heart. Similar books: Clinging to the Wreckage by John Mortimer That's Another Story by Julie Walters Just Me by Sheila Hancock Lessons in Becoming Myself by Ellen Burstyn A Cab at the Door by V. S. Pritchett Will This Do? by Auberon Waugh Arrow In The Blue by Arthur Koestler Shit Magnet by Jim Goad A Little Learning by Evelyn Waugh Point to Point Navigation by Gore Vidal My Life in Houses by Margaret Forster Half the Way Home by Adam Hochschild Quicksands by Sybille Bedford Under a Wing by Reeve Lindbergh Self-Consciousness by John Updike Bonhoeffer by Eric Metaxas Like the Roman by Simon Heffer Memoirs by Pablo Neruda Unbreak My Heart by Toni Braxton