Anthony Bailey (author)
Anthony Bailey | |
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Spouse | Margot Bailey (married 1957-2020) |
Children | 4 daughters, 9 grandchildren |
Relatives | Bridget Sojourner (sister) |
Anthony Cowper Bailey (5 January 1933 – 13 May 2020) was an English
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He lived on Mersea Island, near Colchester, Essex, with his wife Margot. They had four daughters together.
Early life and education
Bailey was born on 5 January 1933 in
After
Under Shawn, Bailey was a "Talk of the Town" reporter and also worked briefly as a reader in the fiction department before becoming a staff writer. His work for the magazine includes profiles, reporter-at-large pieces, poems and short stories.[2]
Career as a writer
Bailey contributed many pieces to The New Yorker magazine. The Dial Press in New York published his first novel, Making Progress, in 1959. His third novel Major André (about Benedict Arnold's attempt to hand over West Point to the British) received positive reviews in 1987.[6]
His books included biographies of Turner and
Bailey was interviewed by NPR and The New York Observer. He contributed to the New York Herald Tribune,[9] The New York Times,[10] The New Republic[11] and Esquire.[12] In Britain, his writings featured in the New Statesman,[13] The Observer[14] and The Sunday Times.[15] The Overseas Press Club awarded him the 1973 Ed Cunningham Award and the Mary Hemingway for his work with The New Yorker.[16]
Personal life
Bailey met Margot Speight (from Yorkshire, England), his future wife, in the White Horse Tavern in Greenwich Village, New York. In 1957, Bailey and Speight married in England. After several years living in Manhattan, the Baileys moved to Stonington, Connecticut, where they lived for 10 years, and had four daughters: Liz, Annie, Katie and Rachel.[2][17]
Bailey was an avid sailor, a passion which he wrote about in several of his books. After moving back to England in 1970, the couple returned to the U.S. nearly every summer in order to sail the New England coast. In The Coast of Summer: Sailing New England Waters from Shelter Island to Cape Cod, Bailey describes the couple's nautical adventures in Lochinvar, their 27-foot sloop. Departing from their home port of Stonington, Connecticut, they sailed to Long Island Sound, Block Island, the Elizabeth Islands, Martha's Vineyard, Nantucket and Cape Cod, where they would visit old friends, swim, and walk the beaches. On their return voyage, they encountered Hurricane Bob, but only after Lochinvar had been tied down and the couple was safely ashore.[18] Bailey's book The Thousand Dollar Yacht also details his knowledge and experiences on the water.[10]
The Baileys returned to settle in England in 1970. After living in Greenwich for many years, the couple moved permanently to the seaside community of Mersea Island in Essex.[7]
Death
Bailey died on 13 May 2020, in Harwich, Essex, United Kingdom. He was 87 and had contracted COVID-19 during the COVID-19 pandemic in England while he was recovering from surgery to repair a broken hip he had sustained in a fall.[7]
Publications
- Making Progress, Dial Press, NY and Michael Joseph, London 1959[19]
- The Mother Tongue, Macmillan NY 1961 and Heinemann London 1963[20]
- The Inside Passage, Macmillan NY 1965[21]
- Through the Great City, Macmillan NY 1967[22]
- The Thousand Dollar Yacht, Macmillan NY 1968 and Sheridan House 1996 publisher Seafarer Books 1996 ISBN 978-0-85036-459-0
- The Light in Holland, Knopf NY 1970 ISBN 9781121897106
- In the Village, Knopf NY and Thames & Hudson London 1971 ISBN 9780394430447
- A Concise History of the Low Countries, American Heritage NY 1972 ISBN 9781541173156
- Rembrandt's House, Houghton Mifflin & J.M.Dent 1978, paperback I.B.Tauris 2015 ISBN 978-1-78076-924-0
- Acts of Union – Reports on Ireland, Random House NY and Faber & Faber London 1980 ISBN 9780394510736
- America, Lost & Found, Random House and Faber & Faber 1981 University of Chicago Press 2000 ISBN 0-226-03455-0
- Along the Edge of the Forest, Random House NY and Faber & Faber London 1983 ISBN 9780394523958
- England, First & Last, Random House and Faber & Faber 1985 ISBN 9780736612357
- Spring Jaunts, Farrar Straus Giroux 1986 ISBN 9780571121106
- Major André, Farrar Straus Giroux 1987 & Carcanet, 1989, ISBN 978-0-85635-795-4
- The Outer Banks, Farrar Straus Giroux 1989 and University of N.Carolina Press 1999 ISBN 0-8078-4820-4
- A Walk Through Wales, HarperColllins NY and Jonathan Cape London 1992 ISBN 9780061180088
- Responses to Rembrandt, Timken NY 1994 ISBN 9780943221182
- The Coast of Summer, HarperCollins 1994 Seafarer Books UK and Sheridan House, Inc. NY 1999| ISBN 978-1-57409-074-1
- Standing in the Sun: a Life of ISBN 978-1-84976-192-5
- Vermeer: A View of Delft, Henry Holt NY 2001, Pimlico London 2013 ISBN 978-0-712-66472-1
- ISBN 978-1-844-13833-3
- Velázquez and the Surrender of Breda, Henry Holt & Co., N.Y. ISBN 978-0-8050-8835-9
- A Walk Along the Boyne, Comhairle Chontae na Mi/Meath County Council, Meath ISBN 978-1-900923-323
References
- ^ America Lost and Found. University of Chicago Press. Retrieved 20 January 2016.
- ^ a b c d Richardson, Jean. "Anthony Bailey: A Seafaring Vision". Publishers Weekly.
- ^ a b c Levens, R. G. C., ed. (1964). Merton College Register 1900–1964. Oxford: Basil Blackwell. p. 432.
- ^ "Anthony Bailey". The New Yorker.
- ^ Begley, Adam. "Excerpt from 'Updike'". Newsday. Retrieved 20 January 2016.
- ^ Wright, Esmond (5 July 1987). "Taking the Rap for Benedict Arnold". The New York Times.
- ^ a b c Thrush, Glenn (26 May 2020). "Anthony Bailey, Biographer With Restless Literary Spirit, Dies at 87". The New York Times. Retrieved 26 May 2020.
- ^ "Collection: Anthony Bailey papers". HOLLIS for Archival Discovery. Harvard Library. Retrieved 26 May 2020.
- ^ "Congressional Record – Extension of Remarks: Honoring the 75th Anniversary of the Borough of Fair Lawn" (PDF). Congressional Record. United States Government Publishing Office. p. E387. Retrieved 26 May 2020.
- ^ a b Bailey, Anthony (22 June 1997). "The Tempest". The New York Times. Retrieved 26 May 2020.
Anthony Bailey's books include two about New England waters, The Coast of Summer and The Thousand Dollar Yacht.
- ^ Croly, Herbert David (1982). The New Republic, Volume 187. Republic Publishing Company. p. 34.
- ^ Bailey, Anthony (1 February 1960). "The Establishment". Esquire. New York City. pp. 70–77. Retrieved 26 May 2020.
- ISBN 9781408152508.
- ISBN 9780002552608.
- ISBN 9781408152508.
- ^ "Awards Recipients". Overseas Press Club. Retrieved 26 May 2020.
- ISBN 9781429973779.
- ^ "The Coast of Summer: Sailing New England Waters from Shelter Island to Cape Cod by Anthony Bailey".
- ^ Crisler, Ben (29 March 1959). "Happy Hedonist – Making Progress". The New York Times. p. BR31. Retrieved 27 May 2020.
- ^ Bailey, Anthony (1961). The Mother Tongue. Macmillan.
- ^ Bailey, Anthony (1965). The Inside Passage. Macmillan.
- ^ Bailey, Anthony (1967). Through the Great City. Macmillan.