Angus Wilson
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Angus Frank Johnstone Wilson (August 11, 1913-1991) was a British novelist and short story writer. He received a knighthood for his services to literature.
Wilson was born in Bexhill, Sussex, England, to an English father and South African mother. He was educated at Merton College, Oxford, and in 1937 became a librarian in the British Museum's Department of Printed Books, working on the new General Catalogue.
His first publication was a collection of short stories, The Wrong Set (1949). His writing has a strongly satirical vein. Several of his books have been adapted for television.
In World War II, he was at Bletchley Park the codebreaking establishment, where he worked in the Naval section Hut 8 on translating Italian Naval codes. A wearer of large, brightly-coloured bow-ties, he was one of the “famous homosexuals” at Bletchley and already known as a novelist (Anne Lavell in Station X by Michael Smith).
He jointly helped to establish the now renowned creative writing course at the University of East Anglia
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[edit] Works
[edit] Novels
- Hemlock and After (1952)
- Anglo-Saxon Attitudes (1956)
- The Middle Age of Mrs Eliot (1958)
- The Old Men at the Zoo (1961)
- Late Call (1965)
- No Laughing Matter (1967)
- As If By Magic (1973)
- Setting the World on Fire (1980)
[edit] Short Story Collections
[edit] Play
- The Mulberry Bush (1955)
[edit] Others
- The Wild Garden or Speaking of Writing (1963)
- The World of Charles Dickens (1970)
- The Naughty Nineties (1976)
- The Strange Ride of Rudyard Kipling: His Life and Works (1977)
- Diversity and Depth in Fiction: Selected Critical Writings of Angus Wilson (1983)
- Reflections In A Writer's Eye: travel pieces by Angus Wilson (1986)
[edit] References
- Angus Wilson: A Biography by Margaret Drabble (1995, Secker & Warburg, London) ISBN 0436 20038 4 or ISBN 0436 20271 9 (paperback)
- Angus Wilson: A Bibliography 1947-1987 by J.H. Snape & Anne N. Thomas (1988, Mansell Publishing, London & New York)
