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ANGUS WILSON (1913 - 1971) |
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Nationality: English Email: n/a Website: n/a |
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Literary Agent: Curtis Brown Group Ltd (estate of) |
Sir Angus Frank Johnstone Wilson, CBE (11 August 1913 31 May 1991) was born in Bexhill, East Sussex, into an elderly, upper-middle-class family. His father, an inveterate gambler, was Scot and mother came from South Africa. The family lived in hotels and boardinghouses and moved from place to place depending upon the father's gambling luck. Wilson's siblings played transvestite games, in which he also participated. Later Wilson depicted his rootless hotel life in the autobiographical work WILD GARDEN (1963). After graduating from Merton College, Oxford, where he studied medieval history and developed his acting talents, Wilson pursued a number of jobs. He joined the British Library and worked there as a book cataloger, and eventually became deputy to the superintendent of the Reading Room. During World War II Wilson was a codebreaker at Bletchley, like the writers Henry Reed and Mary Wesley. Wilson worked at the library until 1955. The Mulberry Bush was his first - and only- produced play
Plays by Angus Wilson
Mulberry Bush, The | ||
| 1st Produced: | 27 Sep 1955 | |||||
Company: | n/a | |||||
| 1st Published: | Secker & Warburg, 1956 | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #37554 | |||
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Genre: | Play/Drama | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 6 | Female | 4 | ||
Parts other: | - | |||||
Notes: | revised version Royal Court, London, 02 April 1956 | |||||
Synopsis: | the reactions of a famous progressive family to the news that its prize scion, lately dead, was something of a cad. | |||||
Further Reference: | Wearing 56.54 | |||||
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