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)