Anthony Burgess

Anthony Burgess was born in Manchester in 1917, was raised a Catholic and lost his mother in the influenza epidemic of 1918. He served in the Army Educational Corps, then taught in Malaya and Brunei for the colonial administration. In 1959, a diagnosis of a brain tumour giving him a year to live, wrong as what followed showed, led him to write five novels in a year to leave his wife something to live on. A composer, he wrote more than two hundred musical works and wished to be regarded as a musician who writes novels. He died in London in 1993.

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• NovelA Clockwork OrangeAnthony Burgess · 1962Literature