A. N. Wilson
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Andrew Norman Wilson (born 27 October 1950) is an English writer, known for his biographies, novels and works of popular and cultural history. He is also (as of 2004) a columnist for the London Evening Standard.
A. N. Wilson was educated at Rugby School and New College, Oxford (BA 1972, MA 1976). Destined originally for ordination in the Church of England, Mr Wilson entered St Stephen's House, the High Church theological college at Oxford, but left at the end of his first year. His particular slant on biography, and to some extent his take on the Victorian era topics he has covered in God's Funeral and The Victorians, can be traced to this early, but thwarted, intention to take Holy Orders. His acclaimed life of Leo Tolstoy, and his books on Jesus, C. S. Lewis and Hilaire Belloc, are notable for their deeply informed and also sceptical attitude to religious belief.
Mr Wilson is also noted for mischief, for example in comments on the parentage of Queen Victoria, and his dissenting views, which many found disrespectful, of Iris Murdoch.
Bibliography
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/opinion/main.jhtml?xml=/opinion/2003/06/17/do1701.xml
Non-fiction
- The Laird of Abbotsford
- The Life of John Milton
- Hilaire Belloc
- How Can We Know?
- Penfriends From Porlock
- Tolstoy
- C. S. Lewis: A Biography
- Jesus
- The Rise and Fall of the House of Windsor
- Paul
- The Victorians
- Iris Murdoch As I Knew Her
- (2004)
- After the Victorians (2005)
Fiction
- The Sweets of Pimlico (1977)
- Unguarded Hours (1978)
- Kindly Light (1979)
- The Healing Art (1980)
- Who Was Oswald Fish? (1981)
- Wise Virgin (1982)
- Scandal (1983)
- Gentlemen in England (1983)
- Love Unknown (1986)
- Stray (1987)
- The Vicar of Sorrows (1993)
- Dream Children (1998)
- My Name Is Legion (2004)
- A Jealous Ghost (2005)
- a novel sequence referred to as The Lampitt Chronicles:
- *Incline Our Hearts (1988)
- *A Bottle in the Smoke (1990)
- *Daughters of Albion (1991)
- *Hearing Voices (1995)
- *A Watch in the Night (1996)
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