Born in Skipton, Yorkshire, Blake Morrisonis the author of bestselling memoirs,* And When Did You Last See Your Father?(winner of the J.R. Ackerley Prize for Autobiography and the Esquire Award for Non-Fiction) and Things My Mother Never Told Me *. His poetry collections include Dark Glasses, which ...

Born in Skipton, Yorkshire, Blake Morrisonis the author of bestselling memoirs,* And When Did You Last See Your Father?(winner of the J.R. Ackerley Prize for Autobiography and the Esquire Award for Non-Fiction) and Things My Mother Never Told Me *. His poetry collections include Dark Glasses, which won the Dylan Thomas and Somerset Maugham prizes, Pendle Witches, which was illustrated by Paula Rego, and Shingle Street. He is also a novelist, critic, journalist and librettist. He lives in South London.