David Mercer

Emerging from a working-class background in Wakefield, Yorkshire, he first labored as a pathology technician and later served in the Merchant Navy before a serviceman’s grant enabled him to study chemistry at Durham, later switching to art at King’s College, Newcastle, and ultimately abandoning painting to pursue writing. His television debut for the BBC, often produced with director Don Taylor, i… Read more

Biography written by WatchMoods, based on public sources