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| − | '''Paul Bailey''', author, born [[Battersea]], London, February 1937. | + | '''Paul Bailey''', author, born [[Battersea]], London, February 1937. He worked as an actor between 1956 and 1964. When he was 30, while working as a shop assistant at Harrods, he wrote his first novel At the Jerusalem, set in an old people’s home, and described by novelist Philip Hensher as “a masterpiece of imaginative empathy”. The novel won both the Somerset Maugham award and the Arts Council Writers’ award after its publication in 1967. |
| − | + | Other books include 'An Immaculate Mistake: Scenes from childhood and beyond' (1990), Trespasses, Gabriel's Lament and Three Queer Lives (which includes a biography of [[Fred Barnes]]). Bailey died in 2024 <ref> https://www.theguardian.com/books/2024/oct/28/novelist-and-poet-paul-bailey-dies-at-87 (Accessed 30 October 2024) </ref>. Bailey was survived by his partner Jeremy Trevathan. | |
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Latest revision as of 17:28, 30 October 2024
Paul Bailey, author, born Battersea, London, February 1937. He worked as an actor between 1956 and 1964. When he was 30, while working as a shop assistant at Harrods, he wrote his first novel At the Jerusalem, set in an old people’s home, and described by novelist Philip Hensher as “a masterpiece of imaginative empathy”. The novel won both the Somerset Maugham award and the Arts Council Writers’ award after its publication in 1967. Other books include 'An Immaculate Mistake: Scenes from childhood and beyond' (1990), Trespasses, Gabriel's Lament and Three Queer Lives (which includes a biography of Fred Barnes). Bailey died in 2024 [1]. Bailey was survived by his partner Jeremy Trevathan.
References
- ↑ https://www.theguardian.com/books/2024/oct/28/novelist-and-poet-paul-bailey-dies-at-87 (Accessed 30 October 2024)
