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NOVELISTS > novelist, playwright, barrister > John Mortimer
The shelf life...
Vendor: NOVELISTS
The shelf life of the modern hardback writer is somewhere between the milk and the yoghurt.
Source: Quoted in: Sunday Times (London, 27 Dec. 1987).
-- John Mortimer, (Apr 21 1923-2009), English novelist, playwright, barrister; He wrote a hugely popular series with a masterfully conceived character (Horace Rumpole) - irascible, anti-authority, fiercely independent, and politically incorrect.