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Young Betjeman

Young Betjeman

by Bevis Hillier (Author)

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    Hardcover 1988

    $3.24

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    Paperback 2003

    $3.24
Synopsis

Young Betjeman opens Bevis Hillier's biographical trilogy of John Betjeman. It was first published in 1988 and has been reissued to accompany John Betjeman: New Fame, New Love, which deals with the poet at the peak of his success.

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More Information

Format: Hardcover
 Pages: 496
 Edition: First Edition
 Publisher: John Murray
Published: 21 Jul 1988
ISBN 10: 0719545315
ISBN 13: 9780719545313

Media Reviews
'Utterly compelling...Bevis Hillier is the brilliant chef of this orgy' -- John Bayley, London Magazine 'A delicious volume which takes the late Laureate from birth to marriage' -- Ferdinand Mount, Sunday Telegraph
Author Bio
Bevis Hillier 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, NEW FAME, NEW LIFE and THE BONUS OF LAUGHTER. He is a fellow of the Royal Society of Arts and the Royal Society of Literature. He lives in Hampshire.