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John Betjeman: The Biography

4.2/5 ( ratings)

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.

Language: English

Pages: 608

Format: Paperback

Publisher: John Murray

Release: October 01, 2006

ISBN: 0719564433

ISBN 13: 9780719564437

John Betjeman: The Biography

4.2/5 ( ratings)

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.

Language: English

Pages: 608

Format: Paperback

Publisher: John Murray

Release: October 01, 2006

ISBN: 0719564433

ISBN 13: 9780719564437

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