John Anthony Burgess Wilson
broadcaster, translator, linguist and educationalist.
He composed over 250 musical works, including a first symphony around age 18, wrote a
number of liberetti, and translated, among other works. His most famous book is "A
Clockwork orange"
John Anthony Burgess Wilson was born in 25. Feb, 1917, in Manchester, England, to Catholic
parents, his mother died of the flu when he was two years old, and he was brought up to his
aunt and later his stepmother.
He studied English at Xaverian College and Manchester University and, after graduation in
1940, served in the British Army Education Corps during World War II.
He was an education officer in Malaya and Brunei from 1954 to 1959, adding to the eventual
total of nine languages in which he was fluent.
By the time he was diagnosed with an inoperable brain tumor in 1959, Burgess had already
published his Malayan trilogy of Time for a Tiger (1956), The Enemy in the Blanket (1958),
and Beds in the East (1959)
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