Which English novelist, born in Manchester in 1917, had the real name John A.B. Wilson?
Culture of Manchester an early author of police procedural novels. Procter's "Hell is a City" (1954) is set in a fictionalised Manchester, later filmed in the city with lead roles for Donald Pleasence and Stanley Baker. Anthony Burgess (born 1917), author of "A Clockwork Orange", was born and educated in Manchester. "Little Wilson and Big God", the first volume of his autobiography, includes a detailed account of his early life in the city between 1917 and 1940. Howard Jacobson, born in Prestwich in 1942, an area with a strong Jewish community, has written about post-war Manchester in "The Mighty Walzer" (1999) and "Kalooki
John Guthrie (novelist) John Guthrie (novelist) John Guthrie (9 July 1905 – 1955), real name John Brodie, was a New Zealand journalist and novelist from New Plymouth who moved to London in 1938. He wrote several novels about New Zealand and New Plymouth. He was born in New Plymouth and educated at New Plymouth Boys' High School, and at Canterbury University College (BA and Diploma in Journalism). While studying at Canterbury College aged 26 he broke a leg in a rugby accident which subsequently had to be amputated; he had been regarded as a potential All Black to represent New Zealand. He wrote