# John Betjeman: The Biography

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- Authors: [Bevis Hillier](https://www.bookquiver.com/bevis-hillier)
- Language: en_GB
- Published: 2007-07-26

## Description

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.

## Editions

### John Betjeman: The Biography

- Publisher: john_murray
- ISBN: 978-07-1956-444-4
- Pages: 1
- Published: 2007-07-26
- Language: en_GB