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John David Morley (born 21 January 1948) is an English writer and novelist. ==Early life== The third and youngest child of the artist and sculptor Patricia Morley (née Booth) and John Arthur Elwell Morley, an officer in the British Colonial Service, John David Victor Morley was born "in something of a hurry on a bench in a third-class Chinese ward at the Kandang Kerbau Maternity Hospital" in Singapore.〔‘Clean, Green High-Rise Kampong: Singapore Revisited’, published in ''Encounters'' (Bloomsbury, 1990), p.3〕〔 He grew up speaking Malay〔‘Now or never, and no second chance’, Richard Lim, ''The Straits Times'' (21 July 2002)〕 amid an extended household of Malays, Javanese, Chinese and Indians, later commemorated by his parents in their memoirs.〔("Colonial Postscript: Diary of a District Officer, 1935-56" ) by John Morley (The Radcliffe Press, 1992) ISBN 9781850435266 & (''My Other Family: An Artist-Wife in Singapore, 1946-48'' ) by Patricia Morley (The Radcliffe Press, 1994) ISBN 978-1-85043-823-6〕 At five, Morley experienced a formative culture shock upon the family’s relocation from tropical Malaya to England, before spending two years on Africa’s Gold Coast where his father was helping to administrate the transition from British colonial rule in soon-to-be independent Ghana. Educated at St George's School and Clifton College, Morley graduated from Merton College, Oxford with an MA in English Language and Literature in 1969. Later the same year he left England for Munich, Germany, where he still lives today.
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