13 Facts About Blake Morrison

Blake Morrison has written a study of the murder of James Bulger, As If.

Since 2003, Morrison has been Professor of Creative and Life Writing at Goldsmiths College, University of London.

Blake Morrison is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature.

Blake Morrison was born in Skipton, North Yorkshire, to an English father and an Irish mother.

Blake Morrison's 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 Blake Morrison had not been privy, formed the basis for his memoir, Things My Mother Never Told Me.

Blake Morrison later studied English literature at the University of Nottingham and UCL.

Blake Morrison worked for The Times Literary Supplement and was literary editor of both The Observer and the Independent on Sunday.

Blake Morrison's early writing career outside of journalism was as a poet and poetry critic.

Blake Morrison became a full-time writer in 1995 and has since produced novels and volumes of autobiography as well as plays, libretti, and writing for television.

Blake Morrison has contributed articles to The New Yorker, the London Review of Books, the New Statesman, The New York Times and Poetry Review and since 2001 he has written regularly for The Guardian.

Blake Morrison is Patron of Guildford-based educational, cultural and social community hub, The Guildford Institute.

Blake Morrison's poems have appeared in several anthologies, including Penguin Modern Poets 1.