Angus Wilson
Angus Frank Johnstone Wilson (
1913-
1991 ) was a British
novelist and
short story writer,
knighted 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 became a
librarian at the
British Museum in
1937. 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.
Books
- Such Darling Dodos (1950)
- Hemlock and After (1952)
- Anglo-Saxon Attitudes (1956)
- 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)
Play