num_pages: 608
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.
language: English
title: John Betjeman: The Biography
titlecomplete: John Betjeman: The Biography
characters: John Betjeman
genres: Biography
ratings_count: 19
publisher: John Murray