John Anthony Burgess Wilson, FRSL who published under the name Anthony Burgess, was an English writer and composer.
Although Burgess was primarily a comic writer, his See more

Novels
His Malayan trilogy The Long Day Wanes was Burgess's first published fiction. Its three books are Time for a Tiger, The Enemy in the Blanket See more

"Burgess's linguistic training", wrote Raymond Chapman and Tom McArthur in The Oxford Companion to the English Language: "... is shown in dialogue enriched by distinctive pronunciations and the niceties of register". During his years in Malaya, and after … See more

• Burgess garnered the Commandeur des Arts et des Lettres distinction of France and became a Monégasque Commandeur de Merite Culturel (Monaco).
• He … See more

Early life
In 1917, Burgess was born at 91 Carisbrook Street in Harpurhey, a suburb of See more

An accomplished musician, Burgess composed regularly throughout his life, and once said: "I wish people would think of me as a musician who writes novels, instead of a novelist who writes music on the side." He wrote more than 250 compositions in a … See more

The largest archive of Anthony Burgess's belongings is housed at the International Anthony Burgess Foundation in Manchester, UK. The holdings include: handwritten journals … See more