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{{Short description|British author (1913β1991)}} {{Use British English|date=August 2014}} {{Use dmy dates|date=August 2014}} {{Infobox writer | honorific_prefix = Sir | name = Angus Wilson | honorific_suffix = [[Commander of the Order of the British Empire|CBE]] | image = Anguswilson.jpg | image_size = | alt = | caption = | pseudonym = | birth_name = Angus Frank Johnstone-Wilson<ref>''[http://collguides.lib.uiowa.edu/?MSC0199#bioNote Guide to the Angus Wilson Papers. Biographical Note.] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180706075305/http://collguides.lib.uiowa.edu/?MSC0199#bioNote |date=6 July 2018 }}'' The University of Iowa Libraries, Iowa City, Iowa, accessed 8 March 2015.</ref> | birth_date = {{Birth date|df=yes|1913|08|11}}<ref name=TimesObit>{{cite news|title=Sir Angus Wilson|url=http://find.galegroup.com/ttda/infomark.do?&source=gale&prodId=TTDA&userGroupName=oxford&tabID=T003&docPage=article&searchType=BasicSearchForm&docId=IF500094277&type=multipage&contentSet=LTO&version=1.0|access-date=30 May 2013|newspaper=The Times|date=3 June 1991|page=16}}</ref> | birth_place = [[Bexhill-on-Sea]], Sussex,<ref name=TimesObit /> England | death_date = {{Death date and age|df=yes|1991|05|31|1913|08|11}}<ref name=TimesObit /> | death_place = [[Bury St Edmunds]], Suffolk,<ref name=TimesObit /> England | resting_place = West Suffolk Crematorium, Risby, St Edmundsbury Borough, Suffolk, United Kingdom | occupation = | language = | nationality = | ethnicity = | citizenship = | education = [[Westminster School]] | alma_mater = [[Merton College, Oxford]] | period = 1949β1986 | genre = | subject = | movement = | notableworks = {{Nowrap|''[[Anglo-Saxon Attitudes]]'' (1956) <br> ''[[The Middle Age of Mrs Eliot]]'' (1958)}} | spouse = | partner = Tony Garrett | children = | relatives = | influences = | influenced = | awards = [[James Tait Black Memorial Prize]] (1958) <br> [[Order of the British Empire|CBE]] (1968) <br> [[Knight Bachelor]] (1980) | signature = | signature_alt = | website = <!-- www.example.com --> | portaldisp = }} '''Sir Angus Frank Johnstone-Wilson''' (11 August 1913{{spaced ndash}}31 May 1991) was an English novelist and short story writer. He was one of England's first openly gay authors.<ref>{{Cite book|title=Routledge International Encyclopedia of Queer Culture|last=Gerstner|first=David A.|publisher=Routledge Taylor & Francis Group|year=2006|isbn=0-415-30651-5|location=New York|page=615}}</ref> He was awarded the 1958 [[James Tait Black Memorial Prize]] for ''[[The Middle Age of Mrs Eliot]]'' and later received a [[knighthood]] for his services to literature.<ref>{{cite encyclopedia |last=MacKay |first=Marina |title=Sir Angus Wilson |url=http://www.litencyc.com/php/speople.php?rec=true&UID=4746 |encyclopedia=The Literary Encyclopedia |date=8 January 2001 |access-date=11 August 2011| archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20110629122300/http://www.litencyc.com/php/speople.php?rec=true&UID=4746| archive-date= 29 June 2011 | url-status= live}}</ref>
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