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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
The Mulberry Bush
(
1955
)
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