Blanche is written with a terrible authority, the authority that comes from artistic necessity when the writer is compelled to write by his demon, rather than by his agent or promoter.

In Uncle Rudolf (2002) the narrator looks back on his colourful life and his rescue as a young boy from a likely death in fascist Romania by his uncle a gifted lyric tenor and the novel's eponymous hero. Paul Bailey (born 16 February 1937) is a British writer and critic author of several novels as well as biographies of Cynthia Payne and Quentin Crisp. Bailey was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature in 1999.

Paul Bailey (born 16 February 1937) is a British writer and critic author of several novels as well as biographies of Cynthia Payne and Quentin Crisp.