The story of a father and son—and is it true, as Wordsworth claimed, that “the child is father of the man” or can one’s character actually change as one grows older?   

Stephen Benatar was born in 1937 in Baker Street, London—and in the block of flats where H. G. Wells and Arnold Bennett once lived; one of these days there’ll have to be a third important plaque beside the other two! Benatar is married, with four children, but now openly gay and living with a male partner.