Anthony Burgess

Anthony Burgess was an English writer and critic most famous for A Clockwork Orange (1962), which Stanley Kubrick adapted into a film in 1971. Other prominent works include the Long Day Wanes (1956-9) set in the decolonizing Malay; the antiwar novel The Wanting Seed (1962); the critically esteemed historical novel Earthly Powers (1980); and Nothing Like the Sun (1964), inspired by the Dark Lady Sequence of Shakespeare’s Sonnets and written in the Bard’s stream of consciousness.  
