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| website = }} Anthony Bailey (born 5 January 1933) is a British writer and art historian. He was evacuated to Dayton, Ohio, in 1940 during World War II.〔http://www.press.uchicago.edu/presssite/metadata.epl?mode=synopsis&bookkey=3614669〕 After returning to England in 1944, he attended several Hampshire grammar schools before studying history at Oxford University. In 1955, he emigrated to New York City and became a staff writer at ''The New Yorker'' magazine for over 30 years.〔http://www.newyorker.com/magazine/bios/anthony_bailey/search?contributorName=anthony%20bailey〕 He has written twenty-three books, including biographies of artists J. M. W. Turner, John Constable, and two books on Rembrandt. He lives on Mersea Island, near Colchester, Essex, with his wife Margot. They have four daughters: Liz, Annie, Katie and Rachel, and nine grandchildren. ==Early life and education== Bailey was born on January 5, 1933, in Portsmouth, England. His parents were Cowper Goldsmith Bailey and Phyllis Molony. While his father served in the British army and his younger sister Bridget remained in England with Bailey's mother during World War II, Tony Bailey was taken in for four years by Otto and Eloise Spaeth, who had four children of their own, including a boy also named Tony. Otto Spaeth was the owner of a Dayton machine tool factory and both he and his wife were passionate art collectors. Bailey's lifelong interest in art was influenced by his time living with the Spaeths. The family's private art collection included such artists as Cezanne, Paul Gauguin, and Edward Hopper. After national service as a young British army officer with the West African Frontier Force, Bailey in 1952 went to Merton College, Oxford, where he read history. In 1955 with Spaeth sponsorship he moved to New York. His early jobs were in shops selling books, first with Scribners and then in the British Book Centre owned by the later notorious newspaper publisher Robert Maxwell. When a friend suggested to Bailey that he submit his writings to the ''New Yorker'', he sent in a piece about parking meters and an account of a day spent with Austrian Catholic priest Ivan Illich, who worked for the poor in Harlem. ''New Yorker'' editor William Shawn offered him a job at the ''New Yorker''. There he found himself in an office next door to John Updike, who became Bailey's lifelong friend.〔http://www.newsday.com/entertainment/books/excerpt-from-updike-1.7814039〕 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. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Anthony Bailey (author)」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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