Blake Morrison

Philip Blake Morrison is a British poet and author who has published in a wide range of fiction and non-fiction genres. His greatest success came with the publication of his memoirs And When Did You Last See Your Father? which won the J. R. Ackerley Prize for Autobiography. He has also written a study of the James Bulger murder, As If. Since 2003, Morrison has been Professor of Creative and Life Writing at Goldsmiths, University of London. He is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature. Morrison was born in Skipton, North Yorkshire, to an English father and an Irish mother. His parents... were both physicians; his mother's maiden name was Agnes O'Shea, but her husband persuaded her to change "Agnes" to "Kim". The details of his mother's life in Ireland, to which he had not been privy, formed the basis for his autobiographical novel, Things My Mother Never Told Me. Blake Morrison attended Ermysted's Grammar School before going on to study English Literature at the University of Nottingham and UCL. He worked for the Times Literary Supplement ' and was literary editor of both The Observer and the Independent on Sunday .
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