Dokument II/vi/14 - Reflections in a writer's eye: Travel pieces by Angus Wilson

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Wilson, Sir Angus Frank Johnstone (known at school as Angus Frank Johnstone-Wilson), son of William Thomas Johnstone-Wilson and Maud Ellen Caney of Durban, S. Africa; b. 11 Aug. 1913; adm. May 1927 (H); left July 1932; Merton Coll. Oxf., matric. 1932, BA 1935; asst Keeper Dept of Printed Books British Museum 1937; Foreign Office (Bletchley) 1942-6; dep. Superin­tendent Brit. Museum Reading Room 1949-55; an author under the name of Angus Wilson; FRSL 1958; Prof. of English Literature Univ. of East Anglia 1966-78; chairman Arts Council literature panel 1966-70, Nat. Book League 1971-4; CBE 1968, CLit 1972; pres. Powys Soc. 1970-80, Dickens Fellowship 1974-5, Kipling Soc. 1981-7; visiting Prof. and hon. Doct. at many US and UK universities; Kt 1980; Pres. Roy. Soc. of Literature 1980-7; author of novels including Such Darling Dodos 1950, Anglo-Saxon Attitudes 1956, Middle Age of Mrs Eliot 1958, Old Men at the Zoo 1961, Late Call 1964, No Laughing Matter 1967, As If By Magic 1973; also wrote The World of Charles Dickens 1970, The Strange Ride of Rudyard Kipling 1977; d. 31 May 1991.