The Uncommon Reader

Writer, playwright, screenwriter, actor, and humorist, Alan Bennett was born in Leeds, England, in 1934 and is one of the leading figures in British literature, to the point of being considered a national treasure. He has won the most important awards in the areas of theatre, film, television, and literature, and was also honored with the Author of the Year Award at the British Book Awards in 2006. In addition to The Royal Reader, a finalist for the Bollinger Everyman Wodehouse Prize and the Independent Booksellers’ Book Prize in 2008, his work is already published in the ASA catalog. They were left nothing but the clothes they were wearing…