Which English novelist, born in Manchester in 1917, had the real name John A.B. Wilson?
"an early author of police procedural novels. Procter's ""Hell is a City"" (1954) is set in a fictionalised Manchester, later filmed in the city with lead roles for Donald Pleasence and Stanley Baker. Anthony Burgess (born 1917), author of ""A Clockwork Orange"", was born and educated in Manchester. ""Little Wilson and Big God"", the first volume of his autobiography, includes a detailed account of his early life in the city between 1917 and 1940. Howard Jacobson, born in Prestwich in 1942, an area with a strong Jewish community, has written about post-war Manchester in ""The Mighty Walzer"" (1999) and ""Kalooki"
"actor Patrick Kennedy, in the BBC drama about Alexander Wilson, Mrs Wilson. Dennis Wilson (poet) Dennis B. Wilson (born June 1921) is a British poet known mainly for his writings as a soldier in World War II. Poems he wrote during the 1944 Normandy landings were published for the first time in 2012 by Kultura Press with the assistance of Tim Crook, a researcher at Goldsmiths College who was working on a biography of his father, the writer and spy Alexander Wilson. His mother was Alexander Wilson's first wife, Gladys. He had two siblings, and has four half-siblings through his"
"John Rankine John Rankine (born Douglas Rankine Mason 26 September 1918, died 8 August 2013) was a British science fiction author, who wrote books as John Rankine and Douglas R. Mason. Rankine was born in Hawarden, Flintshire, Wales and first attended Chester Grammar School and in 1937 went to study English Literature and Experimental Psychology at the University of Manchester, where he was a friend of Anthony Burgess (mentioned in ""Little Wilson and Big God"", AB's autobiography). We know little of his life until 1966, when his first short stories and novels were published while he was in his mid-forties."
"Alexander Wilson (British writer) Alexander Joseph Patrick Wilson (24 October 1893 – 4 April 1963) was an English writer, spy and MI6 officer. He wrote under the names Alexander Wilson, Geoffrey Spencer, Gregory Wilson and Michael Chesney. He was an undiscovered bigamist who lied to many people who only discovered some of his secrets after he died. The truth of some of his life is still (as of 2018) only documented in files regarded as 'sensitive' under section 3(4) of the Public Records Act 1958 by the Foreign and Commonwealth Office. Wilson was born in Dover, to an Irish mother"
"A. N. Wilson Andrew Norman Wilson (born 27 October 1950) is an English writer and newspaper columnist known for his critical biographies, novels and works of popular history. He is an occasional columnist for the ""Daily Mail"" and a former columnist for the ""London Evening Standard"". He has been an occasional contributor to ""The Times Literary Supplement"", ""New Statesman"", ""The Spectator"" and ""The Observer"". Wilson was born in Stone in Staffordshire to a father who became the managing director of Wedgwood, the pottery company. He was educated at Hillstone School, Great Malvern in Worcestershire, and Rugby School from the age"
"B. S. Johnson in the British Library (Add MS 89001). B. S. Johnson Bryan Stanley Johnson (5 February 1933 – 13 November 1973) was an English experimental novelist, poet and literary critic. He also produced television programmes and made films. Born into a working class family, Johnson was evacuated from London during World War II and left school at sixteen to work variously as an accounting clerk, bank junior and clerk at Standard Oil Company. However, he taught himself Latin in the evenings, attended a year's pre-university course at Birkbeck College and, with this preparation, managed to pass the university"
"Colin Wilson Colin Henry Wilson (26 June 1931 – 5 December 2013) was an English writer, philosopher and novelist. He also wrote widely on true crime, mysticism and the paranormal, eventually writing more than a hundred books. Wilson called his philosophy ""new existentialism"" or ""phenomenological existentialism"", and maintained his life work was ""that of a philosopher, and (his) purpose to create a new and optimistic existentialism"". Wilson was born on 26 June 1931 in Leicester, the first child of Arthur and Annetta Wilson. His father worked in a shoe factory. At the age of eleven he attended Gateway Secondary Technical"
"Angus Wilson Sir Angus Frank Johnstone-Wilson, CBE (11 August 191331 May 1991) was an English 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 to literature. Wilson was born in Bexhill, Sussex, England, to an English father, William Johnstone-Wilson, and South African mother, Maude (née Caney), of a wealthy merchant family of Durban. Wilson's grandfather had served in a prestigious Scottish army regiment, and owned an estate in Dumfriesshire, where William Johnstone-Wilson (despite being born at Haymarket) was raised,"
"John Hampson (novelist) John Frederick Norman Hampson Simpson (26 March 1901 – 26 December 1955), who wrote as John Hampson, was an English novelist. Best known for his 1931 novel ""Saturday Night at the Greyhound"" – an unexpected success for the Hogarth Press – he was a member of the Birmingham Group of working class authors which included Walter Allen, Leslie Halward, Walter Brierley and Peter Chamberlain. His elder brother was the motorcycle racer, Jimmy Simpson (James Hampson-Simpson). Hampson was born in Handsworth in Birmingham. Unable to complete his formal education due to ill health, Hampson worked in a munitions"
"John Wilson (Scottish writer) John Wilson of Elleray FRSE (18 May 1785 – 3 April 1854) was a Scottish advocate, literary critic and author, the writer most frequently identified with the pseudonym Christopher North of ""Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine"". He was professor of Moral Philosophy at Edinburgh University (1820–1851). John Wilson was born at Paisley, the son of John Wilson, a wealthy gauze manufacturer who died in 1796, when John was eleven years old, and Margaret Syme (1753–1825). He was the fourth child, but the eldest son, and he had nine brothers and sisters. He was only twelve when he entered"
"Robert Wilson (crime novelist) Robert Wilson (born 1957) is a British crime writer currently resident in Portugal. He is the son of an RAF fighter pilot, and has a degree in English from Oxford. Wilson is the author of the Bruce Medway series, set in and around Benin, West Africa, and the Javier Falcón series, set largely in Seville, Spain. He is also the author of the espionage novel ""The Company of Strangers"" and ""A Small Death In Lisbon"", which consists of a historically split narrative, and won the CWA Gold Dagger in 1999. He was shortlisted for the same"
"Jack Wilson (writer) John ""Jack"" Aiken Wilson (2 October 1937 – 15 December 1997) was a Northern Irish born novelist, a successful amateur boxer and notable literary figure in Ireland in the late 1960s. Jack Wilson was born in Ballyrobert, Craigavad, County Down to James and Eileen (née Aiken) Wilson. He had four brothers and one sister. At the age of eleven he developed abdominal tuberculosis, a disease which almost ended his life. Prevented from joining in lessons with other children, Wilson was given books to read by his teacher, a Mr Cameron, and he quickly developed a love for"
"era, including Sir Francis Bacon. Wilson also wrote some verse. His ""Upon Mr. J. Donne and his Poems"" has been considered one of the better elegies on the poet and was printed in the first collection of John Donne's poems as a tribute. Arthur Wilson (writer) Arthur Wilson (baptised 14 December 1595 – autumn 1652) was a 17th-century English playwright, historian and poet. Born a commoner, he worked as a gentleman-in-waiting and steward to several powerful Parliamentarians in the period up to the English Civil War. He is remembered as a minor playwright, who wrote several plays for London's Blackfriars"
"Wilson took the subject from the Belphegor attributed to Machiavelli, and alludes also to Straparola's version in the ""Notti"". He also translated into English Erasmus's ""Encomium Moriae"" (1668). John Wilson (playwright) John Wilson (1626–1696) was an English playwright and lawyer. He was son of Aaron Wilson, a royalist divine, and was born in London in 1627. He matriculated from Exeter College, Oxford, in 1644, and entered Lincoln's Inn two years later, being called to the bar in 1649. His unswerving support of the royal pretensions recommended him to James, duke of York, through whose influence he became Recorder of Derry"
"the classic mould of the contrarian, he despises anything said by mainstream biology in favour of marginal and sometimes preposterous theories."" The geneticist and former editor of ""Nature"", Adam Rutherford, called the book ""deranged"" and said Wilson ""would fail GCSE biology catastrophically."" The Lampitt Chronicles A. N. Wilson Andrew Norman Wilson (born 27 October 1950) is an English writer and newspaper columnist known for his critical biographies, novels and works of popular history. He is an occasional columnist for the ""Daily Mail"" and a former columnist for the ""London Evening Standard"". He has been an occasional contributor to ""The Times"
"Dennis Wilson (poet) Dennis B. Wilson (born June 1921) is a British poet known mainly for his writings as a soldier in World War II. Poems he wrote during the 1944 Normandy landings were published for the first time in 2012 by Kultura Press with the assistance of Tim Crook, a researcher at Goldsmiths College who was working on a biography of his father, the writer and spy Alexander Wilson. His mother was Alexander Wilson's first wife, Gladys. He had two siblings, and has four half-siblings through his father's bigamous further three marriages. In 2018 he was depicted by the"
"The Manchester Man (novel) The Manchester Man is a novel by the British writer Isabella Banks. It was first published in three volumes in 1876. The story follows the life of a Manchester resident, Jabez Clegg, during the nineteenth century and his rise to prosperity in the booming industrial city. It depicts a number of real historical events such as the Peterloo Massacre. A quotation from the novel forms the epitaph on the tombstone of Tony Wilson, one of the founders of Factory Records in Manchester. An orphaned child is rescued by a tanner and his daughter from the River"
"B. S. Johnson Bryan Stanley Johnson (5 February 1933 – 13 November 1973) was an English experimental novelist, poet and literary critic. He also produced television programmes and made films. Born into a working class family, Johnson was evacuated from London during World War II and left school at sixteen to work variously as an accounting clerk, bank junior and clerk at Standard Oil Company. However, he taught himself Latin in the evenings, attended a year's pre-university course at Birkbeck College and, with this preparation, managed to pass the university entrance exam for King's College London. After he graduated with"
"sister, Marjorie, was a published poet. Wilson preferred to be known as ""Jim"" rather than by any of his given forenames. He was scrappily educated, went to Oxford in 1907 as a non-collegiate student, and left without a degree in about 1910 to become a teacher at a preparatory school, Mount Arlington in Hindhead, Surrey. One of his pupils was the son of the poet Harold Monro, who became a friend. His first, and not very good novel, ""The Friendly Enemy"", was published in 1913. Before the First World War broke out, he spent much of his leisure time at"
"and Ruth Wilson as her own grandmother, Alison Wilson. Ruth Wilson is also an executive producer for the series. Wilson wrote and published three academic books and 24 novels. Alexander Wilson (British writer) Alexander Joseph Patrick Wilson (24 October 1893 – 4 April 1963) was an English writer, spy and MI6 officer. He wrote under the names Alexander Wilson, Geoffrey Spencer, Gregory Wilson and Michael Chesney. He was an undiscovered bigamist who lied to many people who only discovered some of his secrets after he died. The truth of some of his life is still (as of 2018) only documented"
"Richard Llewellyn Richard Dafydd Vivian Llewellyn Lloyd (8 December 1906 – 30 November 1983), known by his pen name Richard Llewellyn (), was a British novelist. Llewellyn was born of Welsh parents in Hendon, Middlesex, in 1906. Only after his death was it discovered that his claim that he was born in St Davids, West Wales, was false. In the U.S., Llewellyn won the National Book Award for favourite novel of 1940, voted by members of the American Booksellers Association. He lived a peripatetic life, travelling widely throughout his life. Before World War II, he spent periods working in hotels,"
"edited by P. J. Ferrier (12 volumes, Edinburgh, 1855–59); the ""Noctes Ambrosianœ"", edited by R. S. Mackenzie (five volumes, New York, 1854); a ""Memoir"" by his daughter, M. W. Gordon (two volumes, Edinburgh, 1862); and for a good estimate, G. Saintsbury, in ""Essays in English Literature"" (London, 1890); and C. T. Winchester, ""John Wilson,"" in ""Group of English Essayists of the Early Nineteenth Century"" (New York, 1910). Attribution John Wilson (Scottish writer) John Wilson of Elleray FRSE (18 May 1785 – 3 April 1854) was a Scottish advocate, literary critic and author, the writer most frequently identified with the pseudonym"
"occult matters and an admiration for Wilson's sometimes dodgy philosophy."" On 1 July 2016 the 'First International Colin Wilson Conference' was held at the University of Nottingham. The 'Second International Colin Wilson Conference' will take place at the same venue on July 6, 2018. Colin Wilson Colin Henry Wilson (26 June 1931 – 5 December 2013) was an English writer, philosopher and novelist. He also wrote widely on true crime, mysticism and the paranormal, eventually writing more than a hundred books. Wilson called his philosophy ""new existentialism"" or ""phenomenological existentialism"", and maintained his life work was ""that of a philosopher,"
"Anthony Burgess John Anthony Burgess Wilson, (; 25 February 1917 – 22 November 1993), who published under the name Anthony Burgess, was an English writer and composer. Although Burgess was predominantly a comic writer, his dystopian satire ""A Clockwork Orange"" remains his best-known novel. In 1971, it was adapted into a highly controversial film by Stanley Kubrick, which Burgess said was chiefly responsible for the popularity of the book. Burgess produced numerous other novels, including the Enderby quartet, and ""Earthly Powers"". He wrote librettos and screenplays, including for the 1977 TV mini-series ""Jesus of Nazareth"". He worked as a literary"
"Young British Novelists"", despite the fact that he has not published new work in English since 1996. ""Ripley Bogle"" won the Rooney Prize and the Hughes Prize in 1989, and a Betty Trask Award and the Irish Book Awards in 1990. Collection of Wilson's columns and articles in Charlie Hebdo (In English). Robert McLiam Wilson Robert McLiam Wilson (born Robert Wilson, 24 February 1964) is a Northern Irish novelist. He was born in the New Lodge district of Belfast and then moved to Turf Lodge and other places in the city. He attended St Malachy's College and studied English at"
"a greater influence. Other novelists, such as Arnold Bennett (1867–1931) and Anglo-Irishman George Moore (1852–1933), consciously imitated the French realists. Bennett's most famous works are the ""Clayhanger"" trilogy (1910–18) and ""The Old Wives' Tale"" (1908). These books draw on his experience of life in the Staffordshire Potteries, an industrial area encompassing the six towns that now make up Stoke-on-Trent in Staffordshire, England. George Moore, whose most famous work is ""Esther Waters"" (1894), was also influenced by the naturalism of Zola. William Dean Howells (1837–1920) was the first American author to bring a realist aesthetic to the literature of the United"
"John Donaldson (author) John Donaldson (1921?–1989), also known as Jon Inglis, was a British author and poet most particularly associated in later life with Oxford, England. Jon Inglis was born into poverty in Newcastle, probably in 1920–21, and was sent to an orphanage at the age of five when his mother who neglected the children in favour of living a life of a single women and alcohol dependant, could no longer cope with the children and his disabled sibling and abandoned them. At the Barnardo's orphanage, he experienced cold, hunger and abuse, he ran away to become the challenger in"
"Winston Graham Winston Mawdsley Graham OBE, born Winston Grime (30 June 1908 – 10 July 2003), was an English novelist best known for the Poldark series of historical novels set in Cornwall. Winston Graham was the author's pseudonym until he changed his name by deed poll from Grime to Graham on 7 May 1947. He also wrote many other novels, including thrillers and historical novels. Graham was born in Victoria Park, Manchester, on 30 June 1908. As a child, Winston contracted pneumonia, and on medical advice was educated at a local day school rather than Manchester Grammar School which his"
"the author of over 80 books and 300 short stories. he also wrote several volumes of poetry. Colections: Uncollected short stories: Colecciones: Uncollected poems: Brian Aldiss Brian Wilson Aldiss, OBE (; 18 August 1925 – 19 August 2017) was an English writer and anthologies editor, best known for science fiction novels and short stories. His byline reads either Brian W. Aldiss or simply Brian Aldiss, except for occasional pseudonyms during the mid-1960s. Greatly influenced by science fiction pioneer H. G. Wells, Aldiss was a vice-president of the international H. G. Wells Society. He was (with Harry Harrison) co-president of the"
"Margaret Wilson (writer) Margaret Wilson (January 16, 1882 – October 6, 1973) was an American novelist. She was awarded the 1924 Pulitzer Prize for ""The Able McLaughlins"". Born in Traer, Iowa, Wilson grew up on a farm and attended the University of Chicago, earning degrees in 1903 and 1904. After completing her education, she became a missionary in the service of the United Presbyterian Church of North America. While assigned to the Punjab region of India, she worked at a girls' school and at a hospital. She returned to the U.S. in 1910 because of illness and resigned from her"
"John Wilson (playwright) John Wilson (1626–1696) was an English playwright and lawyer. He was son of Aaron Wilson, a royalist divine, and was born in London in 1627. He matriculated from Exeter College, Oxford, in 1644, and entered Lincoln's Inn two years later, being called to the bar in 1649. His unswerving support of the royal pretensions recommended him to James, duke of York, through whose influence he became Recorder of Derry about 1681. ""His Discourse of Monarchy"" (1684), a tract in favour of the succession of the duke of York, was followed (1685) by a ""Pindarique"" on his coronation."
"quickly plays a role in the novel. Paul French reviewed it favourably in ""The Los Angeles Review of Books"", stating that: ""Finally Edward Wilson is garnering the praise and readers in England he's long deserved, but it is to be hoped that America can discover him too"". Denis MacShane expressed similar sentiments in his review in ""Tribune"" magazine. ""A Very British Ending"" is published on 14 April 2016. It takes Catesby's story into the 1970s. Edward Wilson (novelist) Edward Wilson is a British writer of spy fiction. A native of Baltimore, Maryland, United States, he emigrated to the United Kingdom"
"Arthur Wilson (writer) Arthur Wilson (baptised 14 December 1595 – autumn 1652) was a 17th-century English playwright, historian and poet. Born a commoner, he worked as a gentleman-in-waiting and steward to several powerful Parliamentarians in the period up to the English Civil War. He is remembered as a minor playwright, who wrote several plays for London's Blackfriars Theatre, and as the author of ""The History of Great Britain, being the Life and Reign of King James I"", which documents the anti-Stuartism prevalent in the late Caroline era. Wilson was born in Yarmouth, England, the son of John Wilson and his"