Transcript John Burgess Wilsonx

John Burgess Wilson
Connor Noteboom & Anthony Anderson
Childhood
 Born in Manchester, England
 February 25, 1917
 Mother and Sister died in 1918
 Influenza epidemic
Education and Service
 Attended 2 schools
 Xaverian College
 University of Manchester
 Graduated with a degree in English Literature
 1940
 Served in Royal Army Medical Corps & Army Educational
Corps
 1940-1946
First Wife
 Marrried Llewela “Lynne” Jones
 In Bournemouth
 Sergeant and musical director of an army dance band
WWII
 Stationed in Gibralatar, Spain
 Army Educational Corps
 Taught a course to troops
 ‘British Way and Purpose’
After the War
 Moved with Lynne to Adderbury
 Taught at Banbury Grammar School
 Wrote his first two novels
 A vision of Battlements
 The Worm and the Ring
Malaya
 Burgess and Lynne moved to Kuala Kangsar
 A collection of poems and “A Vision of Battlements” were both
rejected
 Taught as an Education Officer at the Malay College for the
English Colonial Service
First Publications
 Time for a Tiger
 Published in 1956
 Anthony Burgess
 Completed his Malayan Trilogy
 While teaching
 Trilogy
 Time for a Tiger
 Enemy in the Blanket
 Beds in the East
Tragedy
 Moved to Brunei in 1959
 Collapsed while teaching
 Moved back to England
 Suspected brain tumor
 Wanted to provide for Lynne
 Published 7 novels by the end of 1962
 The Doctor is Sick
 The Worm and the Ring
 A Clockwork Orange
 Misdiagnosis
Prolific Decade
 Published 5 more novels
 Lynne died due to liver failure
 1968
 Burgess returned from discussing a script novel
 Nothing Like the Sun
New Love
 Liliana “Liana” Macellari
 Italian linguist and translator
 Burgess and Liana had 1 son
 Paolo “Andrew” Andrea
 Left England for Malta
 Traveled for the rest of his life
 Lived in various European countries
 Italy
 Switzerland
 Settled in Monaco
 Continued his production as a writer, critic, journalist,
broadcaster, and composer
In the End
 Wrote over 50 books
 30 novels
 Composed music
 Returned to London in early 1990’s
 Died of lung cancer in 1993
Citations
 "Anthony Photos B." AnthonyBurgess.Org. Anthony Burgess Foundation. Web. 12
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