Anthony Burgess Summary

Biography EssayWidely regarded as one of the foremost contemporary fiction writers in English, Anthony Burgess began his long and prolific literary career while living in Malaya during the late 1950s.... Read more

Anthony Burgess was a British writer of enormous powers and capacity. Starting his writing career at age forty-two, he was still able to create over fifty books of fiction, criticism, essays, and tran... Read more

Widely regarded as one of the foremost contemporary fiction writers in English, Anthony Burgess began his long and prolific literary career while living in Malaya during the late 1950s. In 1949 he had... Read more

(This entry was updated by Geoffrey Aggeler (University of Utah) from his entry in the Concise Dictionary of British Literary Biography, volume 8, pp. 3-35.)The literary career of John Anthony Burgess... Read more