A.N. Wilson was born in 1950 and educated at Rugby and New College, Oxford. A fellow of the Royal Society of Literature, he has held a prominent position in the world of literature and journalism. The Victorians, Wilson's study of the Victorian age, was published in 2002 to massive critical acclaim. His previous book, Iris Murdoch As I Knew Her, is now available in Arrow paperback. He lives in North London.
Far and away the best novel of the year was A. N. Wilson's angry, passionate and spiritual onslaught on modern Mammon and the media... which should have won the Man Booker prize, but typically was not shortlisted -- Hugh Massingberd Spectator A wonderful, thrilling depiction of media manipulation, corruption, tolerance and promiscuity. It's so good, and so wise, it hurts. It's the late-20th century in a gulp -- Frances Fyfield The Week A real rattler of an entertainment -- Philip Hensher Spectator Blisteringly funny... My Name Is Legion is not one of those soft-centred satires that ducks the issue. It throws down the gauntlet to Fleet Street and asks some tough questions of the newspapers we read -- David Robson Sunday Telegraph My Name Is Legion weaves a compelling modern morality tale of crime and punishment that links the world of the rich and powerful to that of the poor and dispossessed... All of this is highly enjoyable, and kept going with an irresistibly waspish verve -- Amanda Craig Independent on Sunday