biography
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Wilson, Sir Angus (Frank Johnstone)
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| male
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| lived:
| (1913–91)
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| biography:
| Writer, born in Bexhill, East Sussex, SE England, UK. He studied at Oxford, began writing in 1946, and rapidly established a reputation with his short stories, The Wrong Set (1949). His works include the novels Hemlock and After (1952), Anglo-Saxon Attitudes (1956), which were both best-sellers, and a family chronicle, The Old Men at the Zoo (1961), Late Call (1965), and No Laughing Matter (1967), as well as the play The Mulberry Bush (1955) and two further volumes of short stories. He was professor of English literature at East Anglia (1966–78), was knighted in 1980, and moved to France. His Collected Stories were published in 1987. |
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