Paul Bailey

Paul Bailey was an award-winning writer whose novels include At The Jerusalem, which won a Somerset Maugham Award and an Arts Council Writers' Award, and Peter Smart's Confessions and Gabriel's Lament, which were both shortlisted for the Booker Prize for Fiction. He was a Literary Fellow at the Universities of Newcastle and Durham, and the first recipient of the E.M. Forster Award. In 1973 a bicentennial fellowship took him to the mid-west of America. In 1978 he won a George Orwell Memorial prize for his essay "The Limitations of Despair," published in the Listener. He reviews for the Guardian and the TLS and his journalism is widely published. His books have received great critical acclaim. They include Trespasses (1970), A Distant Likeness (1973), Peter Smart's Confessions (shortlisted for the 1977 Booker Prize), Old Soldiers (1980), Gabriel's Lament (shortlisted for the 1986 Booker Prize), Sugar Cane (1993), An Immaculate Mistake (1990), Kitty and Virgil (1998), Three Queer Lives (2001), Uncle Rudolf (2002), A Dog's Life (2003), Chapman's Odyssey (2011). The Prince's Boy was published by Bloomsbury in 2014.

At the Jerusalem was republished by Head of Zeus's Apollo Classics list in 2019, and a new collection of poetry and prose, Inheritance, was published at the same time by CB Editions. Joie de vivre, his second collection, was published by CB Editions in 2022.