John Betjeman: The Biography
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- ISBN 9780719564444
- Weight: 448g
- Dimensions: 127 x 197mm
- Publication Date: 26 Jul 2007
- Publisher: John Murray Press
- Publication City/Country: GB
- Product Form: Paperback
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This biography takes the reader from Betjeman's troubled childhood in north London, through his blossoming at Oxford; a gay fling with W. H. Auden; a clandestine marriage to a field marshal's daughter; pranks as a film critic; wartime service and probable espionage in Ireland, to the glory days of his later years when his Collected Poems became a runaway bestseller. This book is a distillation of Bevis Hillier's three-volume biography, authorized by Betjeman himself.
Bevis Hillier has devoted more than twenty-five years to writing Betjeman`s life, a task entrusted to him by the poet himself. Like Betjeman he was educated at Magdalen College, Oxford. Later he joined the Times, became editor of The Connoisseur and a columnist on the Los Angeles Times, as well as writing for many other papers and journals. He edited Betjeman`s `Uncollected Poems` `now included in `Collected Poems``, compiled `John Betjeman: A Life in Pictures` and is the author of `Young Betjeman`. He is a fellow of the Royal Society of Arts and the Royal Society of Literature. He lives in Hampshire.
