Paul Bailey

Paul Bailey (born 16 February 1937) is a British writer.

Life and works

He originally worked as an actor before becoming a full time writer in 1967. He won a number of fellowships in the 1970s, and served as a visiting lecturer at North Dakota State University from 1977 to 1979. He won the E. M. Forster Award in 1974, and the George Orwell Prize in 1978. He is currently a writer in residence at Kingston University.

His novels include "At The Jerusalem" (1967), which won both a Somerset Maugham Award and an Arts Council Writers' Award, "Peter Smart's Confessions" (1977), "Gabriel's Lament" (1986), "Sugar Cane" (1993), sequel to "Gabriel's Lament", "Kitty and Virgil" (1998), and "Uncle Rudolf" (2002). He has also written radio and television plays, and his non-fiction books include two volumes of memoir, and several biographies.

Bibliography

*"At The Jerusalem " (1967)
*"Trespasses " (1970)
*"A Distant Likeness " (1973)
*"Peter Smart's Confessions " (1977)
*"Old Soldiers " (1980)
*"An English Madam: The Life and Work of Cynthia Payne " (1982)
*"Gabriel's Lament " (1986)
*"An Immaculate Mistake: Scenes from Childhood and Beyond " (1990)
*"Sugar Cane " (1993)
*"The Oxford Book of London " (ed.) " (1995)
*"First Love " (ed.) " (1997)
*"Kitty and Virgil " (1998)
*"The Stately Homo: A Celebration of the Life of Quentin Crisp " (ed.) " (2000)
*"Three Queer Lives: An Alternative Biography of Naomi Jacob, Fred Barnes and Arthur Marshall" (2001)
*"Uncle Rudolf " (2002)
*"A Dog's Life " (2003)

External links

*contemporary writers|id=9 includes a brief analysis of his work.
* [http://www.tate.org.uk/tateetc/issue12/pasmoreseyes.htm Tate Etc.]