Anthony Bailey (writer)

Anthony Bailey (2010)

Anthony Bailey (born January 5, 1933 in Portsmouth ; died May 13, 2020 in Harwich ) was a British writer.

Life

Anthony Bailey was evacuated in 1940 because of the German threat of invasion with a child transport to Otto L. Spaeth's family in Dayton in the USA. Spaeth was an industrialist in Dayton and an art collector. Bailey returned to his family in 1944. He attended grammar school and did military service in the British Army in British West Africa. From 1952 he studied history at Merton College , Oxford University . In 1955, with the support of Spaeth, he moved to New York City , where he initially got by with odd jobs .

William Shawn then hired him as a freelance reporter on the city office at The New Yorker ; John Updike worked in the neighboring office , with whom he developed a lifelong friendship. Bailey remained a full-time editor for 35 years, writing reports, portraits, poems and short stories until he couldn't think of anything more and Tina Brown took over the New Yorker in 1992. Bailey has also contributed to the New York Herald Tribune, The New York Times, The New Republic and Esquire, and in England to the New Statesman, The Observer and the Sunday Times.

In 1959 Bailey published his first novel Making Progress and in 1987 the novel Major André . He has published a total of 23 books, including artist biographies on John Constable , JMW Turner , Diego Velázquez , Jan Vermeer and (twice) Rembrandt . He called himself a descriptor of artists and places ( painters and places ).

Bailey married the British Margot Speight; they have four children. They moved to Greenwich , England in 1970 and later to Mersea Island . They were sailors and he wrote books about their sailing trips.

After breaking a hip in his Mersea Island home, he became infected during rehabilitation and fell victim to the COVID-19 pandemic .

Works (selection)

• Making progress . New York: Dial Press, 1959
• The Mother Tongue . New York: Macmillan, 1961
• The Inside Passage . New York: Macmillan, 1965
• Through the Great City . New York: Macmillan, 1967
• The Thousand Dollar Yacht . New York: Macmillan, 1968 ISBN 978-0-85036-459-0
• The Light in Holland . New York: Knopf, 1970
• In the village . New York: Knopf, 1971
• A Concise History of the Low Countries . New York: American Heritage, 1972
• Rembrandt's House . Houghton Mifflin & JMDent 1978 ISBN 978-1-78076-924-0
• Acts of Union - Reports on Ireland . New York: Random House, 1980
• America, Lost & Found. An English Boy's Wartime Adventures in the New World . New York: Random House, 1981 ISBN 0-226-03455-0 (autobiographical)
• Along the Edge of the Forest . New York: Random House, 1983
• England, First & Last . New York: Random House, 1985 (autobiographical)
• Spring Jaunts . New York: Farrar Straus Giroux, 1986
• Major André . New York: Farrar Straus Giroux, 1987 ISBN 978-0-85635-795-4
• The Outer Banks . New York: Farrar Straus Giroux, 1989 ISBN 0-8078-4820-4
• A walk through Wales . New York: HarperCollins, 1992
• Responses to Rembrandt . New York: Timken, 1994
• The Coast of Summer . New York: HarperCollins 1994 ISBN 978-1-57409-074-1
• Standing in the sun: a life of JMW Turner . London: Sinclair Stevenson, 1997 ISBN 978-1-84976-192-5
• A view of Delft: Vermeer then and now . London: Pimlico, 2002 ISBN 0-7126-6472-6
  • Vermeer . Translation of Bettina Blumenberg . Berlin: Siedler, 2002 ISBN 978-3-88680-745-1
• John Constable: A Kingdom of His Own . London: Vintage Books, 2007 ISBN 978-1-844-13833-3
• Velázquez and The Surrender of Breda . New York: Henry Holt, 2011 ISBN 978-0-8050-8835-9

Web links

• Literature by and about Anthony Bailey in the catalog of the German National Library
• Literature by and about Anthony Bailey in the WorldCat bibliographic database
• Short biography and reviews of works by Anthony Bailey at perlentaucher.de
• Anthony Bailey , Posts in The New Yorker

Individual evidence

1. ^ ^{A b c d} Jean Richardson: Anthony Bailey: A Seafaring Vision . Review, in: Publishers Weekly , January 11, 1999
2. ↑ ^{a b} Glenn Thrush, Anthony Bailey, Biographer With Restless Literary Spirit, this at 87 , New York Times of May 23, 2020th