Mr. Mortimer was a barrister, author, playwright and the creator of Horace Rumpole, the cunning defender of the British criminal classes. By Helen T. Verongos John Mortimer, who died on Friday at 85, ...

Viking. 191 pp. $24.95 The astonishingly productive John Mortimer -- the "By the Same Author" page in "The Summer of a Dormouse" lists more than three dozen books by or edited by him -- is now near ...

LONDON (Reuters Life!) - British author and lawyer John Mortimer, the creator of legal television show "Rumpole of the Bailey," died on Friday aged 85, his spokeswoman said. Mortimer, who also ...

BAFTA and Golden Globe nominee Rupert Everett will star in John Mortimer's celebrated autobiographical play A Voyage Around My Father, which will open at Theatre Royal Bath, with performances from 28 ...

BAFTA and Golden Globe nominee Rupert Everett (My Best Friend’s Wedding, The Importance of Being Earnest, Shrek 2) will star in a new production of John Mortimer’s celebrated autobiographical play A ...