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