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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.

John Betjeman: The Biography

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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... Read more

    Publisher: John Murray Press
    Publication Date: 26/07/2007
    ISBN13: 9780719564444, 978-0719564444
    ISBN10: 0719564441

    Number of Pages: 608

    Non Fiction , Biography

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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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