An exhibition celebrating the 50-year milestone for Smith College's Mortimer Rare Book Room is on display through Dec. 20. The “A Room of Our Own” exhibit is on the third floor of the Neilson Library ...

From British man of letters Mortimer ( Paradise Postponed ; Rumpole of the Bailey ), this is an early novel, published in England in 1954. It's a delicate tale of a marriage shaken by the death, ...

Adler passionately believes that most people, even those with college degrees, have not really acquired the skills necessary to explore the world of ideas. To document his argument that people are not ...

Martin Antonetti, curator of rare books, shows a class The Mortimer Rare Book Room's largest manuscript, which is from the 15th century. (Jim Gipe photo) NORTHAMPTON –The Mortimer Rare Book Room at ...

The protagonist of Penelope Mortimer’s 1958 novel, Daddy’s Gone a-Hunting, is a 37-year-old housewife named Ruth, who is sliding into a madness of midlife suffocation and despair. Alone in her kitchen ...

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, ...

Mortimer J. Adler, the iconoclastic encyclopedist and progenitor of the “Great Books” collection of notable writers and thinkers, died Thursday at his home in San Mateo. He was 98. The former longtime ...

Comedian Bob Mortimer has delved deeper into the fruit bowl for the follow-up to his bestselling debut novel, The Satsuma Complex. The Hotel Avocado is a stunning sequel, filled with his trademark ...