Anthony Burgess: A BiographyMacmillan, 4 feb 2014 - 480 pagina's Interviewer: "On what occasions do you lie?" Anthony Burgess: "When I write, when I speak, when I sleep." |
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... College secondary school, Victoria Park,Rusholme (since 'turnedinto aMuslim ghetto'),on a scholarship. 1936 Sits for Customs and Excise examination. Comes 1,579th. 1937 October: startsat VictoriaUniversity ofManchester (formerly Owen's ...
... college lecturer in Speech and Drama. InLondon, Lynne, pregnant, is allegedly mugged and attacked by GI deserters; she miscarries. 1946 Promoted tosergeant major. Discharged, returns from Gibraltar to London tolivewithLynne on Baron's ...
... College, Kuala Kangsar. 1955 Transfers to Teachers' Training College, Kota Bharu, Kelantan. Works on an anthology of English literature ina Malay translation. Lynne's mother diesfrom cancer ofthethroat; theydonot return toBritain. 1956 ...
... College,Boston. Travels through Massachusetts and stays with his Norton editor, Eric P. Swenson, near Hartford,Connecticut. Speaksata literary festival at Vanderbilt University, Nashville,in Tennessee, and meets Richard Ellmann. Visits ...
... College,New York. In the autumn he conducts a lecture tour of the American west coast, starting in Vancouver andfinishing in Los Angeles. Henry Miller comes tohearhimon FinnegansWake,'but he did notstayto the end'. ElectedFellow, Royal ...