Sir John Mortimer - Legal Author

Sir John Mortimer, a famous barrister and writer.
Brief autobiography
http://www.penguin.co.uk/nf/Author/AuthorPage/0,,1000023047,00.htm
More detailed bibliography
http://www.fantasticfiction.co.uk/m/john-mortimer/
Read extracts from some of his books:
http://www.penguin.co.uk/static/cs/uk/0/extracts/index.html
including Rumpole, the famous funny barrister.
 
The first time I came across Mortimer was in the mid-1970's when I
saw an amateur version of his autobiographical play "Voyage Round
My Father" about his relationship with his blind father.  I did
not enjoy it at the time but later took over the practice of a
blind solicitor and realised what he had been getting at!  And, of
course, Rumpole is always good.