ANGUS WILSON

'Sir Angus Frank Johnstone Wilson' (August 11,1913-May 31, 1991) was a British novelist and short story writer. He received a knighthood for his services to literature.

Contents

Biography

Bibliography

Novels

Short story collections

Play

Others

References

External links

Biography

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.
During World War II, he worked in the Naval section Hut 8 at the code-breaking establishment, Bletchley Park, 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.

Bibliography

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)

Short story collections

★ ''The Wrong Set'' (1949)

★ ''Such Darling Dodos'' (1950)

★ ''A Bit Off the Map'' (1957)

Play

★ ''The Mulberry Bush'' (1955)

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)

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)

External links

★ Authors' Calendar: Angus Wilson

★ The Paris Review Interview