pDavid Hare has long been one of Britain's best-known screenwriters and dramatists. He's the author of more than thirty acclaimed plays that have appeared on Broadway, in the West End, and at the National Theatre. He wrote the screenplays for the hugely successful films emThe Hoursem, emPlentyem, and emThe Readerem. Most recently, his play emSkylightem won the 2015 Tony Award for Best Revival on Broadway.ppNow, in his debut work of autobiography, Britain's leading contemporary playwright emSunday Timesem offers a vibrant and affecting account of becoming a writer amid the enormous flux of postwar England. In his customarily dazzling prose and with great warmth and humor, he takes us from his university days at Cambridge to the swinging 1960s, when he cofounded the influential Portable Theatre in London and took a memorable road trip across America, to his breakthrough successes as a playwright amid the political ferment of the '70s and the moment when Margaret Thatcher came to power at