Anthony Burgess

John Anthony Burgess Wilson, commonly known as Anthony Burgess, was an English writer, screenwriter and composer. Although he was primarily a comic writer, his dystopian satire A Clockwork Orange remains his best-known novel. He produced a number of other novels as well. He was born in 1917 and died in 1993. Besides novels, he wrote librettos and screenplays, including the 1977 television mini-series Jesus of Nazareth, worked as a literary critic for several publications, and wrote studies of classic writers, notably James Joyce. A versatile linguist, he lectured in phonetics and translated Cyrano de Bergerac, Oedipus Rex and the opera Carmen, among other works.