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Angus (Frank Johnstone) Wilson | | Variant Name: |
Angus Wilson, Angus Frank Johnstone Wilson, Sir Frank Johnstone, Sir Angus Wilson, Frank Johnstone | | Birth Date: |
August 11, 1913 | | Death Date: |
May 31, 1991 | | Nationality: |
British | | Gender: |
Male |
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 Biography of Angus (Frank Johnstone) Wilson
17,620 words, approx. 59 pages
 "The novel must be thought about, intellectually thought about, hard," Angus Wilson said several years ago while lecturing in California on writing fiction. It must also be recharged with drama and with life, he went on to add. Because Wilson has been... summary from source:
Biography of Angus (Frank Johnstone) Wilson
8,334 words, approx. 28 pages
Angus Wilson was the first prominent new English writer to emerge in the post--World War II era. In Critical Essays on Angus Wilson (1985) Malcolm Bradbury calls him "one of four or five great English post-war writers," placing him in the company of... summary from source:
Biography of Angus (Frank Johnstone) Wilson
2,614 words, approx. 9 pages
Angus Frank Johnstone Wilson was born on 11 August 1913 in Sussex, the sixth son of William Johnstone Wilson and Maude Caney Wilson, of Durban, South Africa. His father, a raffish sporting man who never forgot his social position, belonged to the... 
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 Angus Wilson Quotes
30 words, approx. 1 pages
 The opportunities for heroism are limited in this kind of world: the most people can do is sometimes not to be as weak as they've been at other...
Encyclopedia and Summary Information
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 Angus Wilson Information
400 words, approx. 1 pages
Sir Angus Frank Johnstone Wilson (11 August 1913 – 31 May 1991) was a British novelist and short story writer. He was awarded the 1958 James Tait Black Memorial Prize for The Middle Age of Mrs Eliot and later received a knighthood for his services...
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 The Economist (US) Angus Wilson.
06/17/1995: 343 words, approx. 1 pages SHE is deservedly one of the best-known names in post-war fiction. As a biographer, however, she is completely unknown. And anybody who reads Margaret Drabble's new biography of Sir Angus Wilson*, the author of "Hemlock and After", "Anglo-Saxon Attitudes", "The Old Men at... summary from source:
The Boston Globe Capturing the humanity, humor of Angus Wilson
12/05/1996: 872 words, approx. 3 pagesANGUS WILSON A Biography By Margaret Drabble St. Martin's Press, 716 pp., illustrated, $35 Angus Wilson was the best British novelist of the postwar period. A late bloomer who wrote his first short story at 35, he was sometimes described as having come out...
Literary Criticism
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 Critical Essay by Averil Gardner
9,596 words, approx. 32 pages
Gardner is an English-born Canadian educator and critic. In this excerpt from her book-length study of Wilson, she discusses The Wrong Set and Such Darling Dodos.
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Critical Essay by Peter Faulkner
7,080 words, approx. 24 pages
In this excerpt from his book-length study of Wilson, Faulkner analyzes the stories in Wilson's first two collections of short stories, noting the author's developing style.
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J. H. Stape
6,908 words, approx. 23 pages
In this essay, Stape analyzes a number of Wilson's lesser-known stories. The critic focuses on the incidents from the author's life that contributed to the tales and discusses the manner in which the characters and themes of the stories are reflected in Wilson's subsequent novels.
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