A.N.Wilson.
A.N.Wilson
THE MYSTERY OF CHARLES DICKENS (2020)
Winner of the Plutarch Award.
Charles Dickens (born 1812) is widely regarded as the greatest novelist of the Victorian age. His work was enormously popular in his lifetime and beyond. He suffered great hardship in his youth, leaving school at the age of twelve to work in a boot-blacking factory.
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A.N.Wilson (Andrew Norman Wilson, born 1950) is an English author, academic, and journalist. He was educated at Rugby School and at New College, Oxford University. After university he taught English and then spent seven years as lecturer in medieval literature at Oxford University. Wilson has written twenty fiction books, as well as numerous works of history and biography. The subjects of his biographies include Leo Tolstoy, Dante, C.S.Lewis, Hilaire Belloc, John Milton, Sir Walter Scott, John Betjeman, Iris Murdoch, Queen Victoria, Queen Elizabeth II, Prince Albert, and Adolf Hitler.
