Blake Morrison’s books include two collections of poems, Dark Glasses and The Ballad of the Yorkshire Ripper, as well as the Penguin Book of Contemporary British Poetry, edited with Andrew Motion. He has also written a controversial account of the James Bulger murder case, As If, a children’s book, The Yellow House, and a novel, The Justification of Johann Gutenberg. But he is probably best known for his bestselling memoirs, And When Did You last See Your Father? and Things My Mother Never Told Me. Formerly literary editor of both The Observer and The Independent on Sunday, he now writes regularly for The Guardian. He is currently Professor of Creative and Life Writing at Goldsmiths College, London.