Jaime Bayly - Early Life

Early Life

Bayly was born to an Anglo-Peruvian family of upper class. He was the first son and the second of the ten children of James Bayly Llona and his wife, Doris Letts Colmenares.

A student at Markham College, an English private school in Lima, and later at Colegio San Agustín of Lima. In his early youth he was coerced by his mother to work at daily newspaper La Prensa of Lima in order to become more responsible through a part-time job. He spent every afternoon after school working in journalism until late.

In 1982 he was accepted to the Pontificia Universidad Católica del Perú. After studying for four years, he had to leave the university as he could not pass a mandatory subject.

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