| AdminHistory | Sir Angus Frank Johnstone Wilson [1913-1991] was a novelist and biographer. Wilson worked in the British Museum in the department of printed books until 1955, with a brief interim at Bletchley Park during the Second World War. Wilson published short stories, plays, novels, biographies and journalism, as well as making television appearances and lecturing internationally. He lectured in English at the University of East Anglia from its opening in 1962, and was appointed professor in 1967. Wilson was one of England's first openly gay authors and was a prominent supporter of equal rights, attending the Campaign for Homosexual Equality conference in Sheffield in 1975. He also served as vice-chair and chair of the Arts Council literature panel, chairman of the National Book League, and president of the Royal Society of Literature. He was the recipient of the 1975 Booker prize, was made a CBE in 1969, and knighted in 1980. |