John Betjeman : the biography

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John Betjeman : the biography

Bevis Hillier

John Murray, 2007, c2006

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Originally published: 2006

Includes bibliographical references (p. 559-563) and index

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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.

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