Download or read book Memoirs of a Public Baby written by Philip O'Connor and published by W. W. Norton. This book was released on 1989 with total page 229 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This memoir by an English surrealist poet astonished the literary world when it was first published in London in 1958. A classic account of O'Connor's tormented life: his father's death; his mother's abandonment; his youth as a vagrant, a madman, a promising but impoverished writer.