Paul Bailey

Background

BAILEY, Paul was born on February 16, 1937. Son of Arthur Oswald Bailey and Helen Maud Burgess.

Education

Paul Bailey attended Sir Walter Street John"s Grammar School Foreign Boys in Battersea, London.

Career

He became a freelance writer in 1967. He was appointed Literary Fellow at Newcastle and Durham Universities (1972-1974), and was awarded a Bicentennial Fellowship in 1976, enabling him to travel to the United States of America, where he was Visiting Lecturer in English Literature at the North Dakota State University (1977-1979). Bailey was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature in 1999. is the story of the relationship between an Englishwoman and an exiled Romanian poet.

In his book "Chapman"s Odyssey" (2011), the main character, Harry Chapman, in morphine-induced delirium, encounters characters from literature, writers, deceased friends and family members as he lies seriously ill in a London hospital.

Despite his melancholy and fear, Harry entertains the nurses with recitations of some of the favourite poems he has memorised in a lifetime of reading. His latest book is "The Prince"s Boy" (2014), a melancholic gay love story that spans four decades.

Bailey has also written plays for radio and television: At Cousin Henry"s was broadcast in 1964 and his adaptation of Joe Ackerley"s We Think the World of You was televised in 1980. His non-fiction books include a volume of memoir, entitled, and, a biography of three gay popular entertainers from the twentieth century.

Bailey is also known as a literary critic, and contributor to The Guardian and in 2001 headed an all-male "alternative" judging panel for the Orange Prize.

Achievements

• Paul Bailey has been listed as a notable writer by Marquis Who's Who.

Works

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  • Trespasses

    (Set in Camberwell in the 1950s, this is the story of Ralp...)

  • An Immaculate Mistake: Scenes from Childhood and Beyond

    (An autobiographical memoir, set for the most part in Lond...)

  • An Immaculate Mistake: 2

    (This is Paul Bailey's account of growing up as a working ...)

  • A Distant Likeness

    (London published Fiction)

  • A Distant Likeness by Paul Bailey (14-Jun-1973) Hardcover
  • An Immaculate Mistake: Scenes from Childhood and Beyond First edition by Bailey, Paul (1990) Hardcover
  • An Immaculate Mistake : Scenes from Childhood and Beyond
  • An English Madam: Life and Work of Cynthia Payne by Paul Bailey (14-Jul-1983) Paperback
  • An English Madam: Life and Work of Cynthia Payne
  • (An Immaculate Mistake: Scenes from Childhood and Beyond) Author: Paul Bailey published on (May, 1990)
  • An English madam: the life and work of Cynthia Payne

Interests

• Visiting churches, opera, watching tennis.

Connections

Father:

Arthur Oswald Bailey

Mother:

Helen Maud Burgess