David Hare was born in Sussex in 1947. He is the author of twenty-nine plays for the stage, seventeen of which have been seen at the National Theatre. These plays include Plenty, The Secret Rapture, Amy's View, Via Dolorosa, Stuff Happens, Gethsemane, The Power of Yes, Racing Demon, The Absence of War and South Downs. His many screenplays for cinema and television include Licking Hitler, Damage, The Hours and The Reader. He recently wrote and directed a trilogy of films for the BBC: Page Eight, Turks & Caicos and Salting the Battlefield.
"""A reliable source of delight."" -- New Statesman ""Hare has been composing essays and poems, collected in this nutritious book, which demonstrate how he keeps himself bracingly angry by remaining alert to ""unwelcome news""...We Travelled contains the germs, the viruses, for heaps more classic Hare epics."" -- Spectator"