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Name: Anthony Burgess Wilson
Nationality: British
Born: Manchester, Lancashire, 25 Febuary1917
Family: Married twice. First to Llewla IsherwoodJones in 1942, then after her death to Liliana Macellari in 1968.
Career:
1940 - 1946 Served in BritishArmy Education Corps.
1946 - 1948 Lecturer at BirminghamUniversity.
1948 - 1950 Lecturer in phonetics,Ministry of Education.
1950 - 1954 English master,Banbury Grammar School in Oxfordshire.
1954 - 1957 Lecturer in English,Malayan Teacher's College, Khata Baru.
1958 - 1959 Language Specialist,Department of Education Brunei.
1969 - 1970 Writer in residence,University of North Carolina.
1970 - 1971 Professor ColumbiaUniversity and visiting fellow at Princeton.
1972 - 1973 Professor at Universityof New York.
1972 - 1973 Literary adviserto the Guthrie theatre Minneapolis.
And in between all this, also writer and composer. (BusyMan!)
Literary Works: 35 novels, of which 'A ClockworkOrange', published in 1962 is the most well known. Largely because of theStanley Kubrick film adaption.) He also wrote various plays, and did lotsof translations of foreign texts.