A N Wilson, FRSL

Career: author; asst master Merchant Taylors' Sch 1975-76, lectr St Hugh's Coll and New Coll Oxford 1976-81; literary ed: The Spectator 1981-84, Evening Standard 1990-97; columnist Evening Standard 1990-; FRSL 1981

Books and Publications: The Sweets of Pimlico (1977, John Llewellyn Rhys Meml Prize 1978), Unguarded Hours (1978), Kindly Light (1979), The Laird of Abbotsford (1980, John Llewellyn Rhys Meml prize 1981), The Healing Art (1980, Somerset Maugham Award 1981), Who Was Oswald Fish? (1981), Wise Virgin (1982, W H Smith Literary Award 1983), The Life of John Milton (1983), Scandal (1983), Hilaire Belloc (1984), How Can We Know? (1985), Gentlemen in England (1985), Love Unknown (1986), Stray (1987), The Lion and the Honeycomb (1987), Penfriends from Porlock (1988), Tolstoy (1988, Whitbread Biography Award), Incline Our Hearts (1988), The Tabitha Stories (1988), Eminent Victorians (1989), C S Lewis (1990), A Bottle in The Smoke (1990), Daughters of Albion (1991), Jesus (1992), The Rise and Fall of the House of Windsor (1993), The Vicar of Sorrows (1993), Hearing Voices (1995), A Watch in the Night (1996), Paul: The Mind of The Apostle (1997), Dream Children (1998), God's Funeral (1999), The Victorians (2002), Iris Murdoch As I Knew Her (2003), London: A Short History (2004), My Name is Legion (2004), A Jealous Ghost (2005), After the Victorians (2005), Betjeman (2006), Our Times (2008)