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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 letters and has been Literary Editor of both the Evening Standard and the Spectator. An award-winning biographer, he has written lives of Sir Walter Scott (John Llewellyn Rhys Prize), Tolstoy (Whitbread Award for Biography), C.S. Lewis and Hilaire Belloc. When the bestselling Jesus was first published in 1992 it caused a sensation, and it was followed with A.N. Wilson's equally controversial Paul - also available in Pimlico. He lives in North London.
The announcement that A N Wilson, possibly the last survivor of that ancient trade, a man of letters, was to write a 'proper' biography of Jesus Christ gave rise to laughter, anxiety and gnashing of teeth, dependent on point of view; but in the main it was felt that the task was quite simply impossible. As it transpires the result is as the author intended, as near as possible the story of Jesus using the sources available. His success will undoubtedly be of little consolation to some devout Christians, and it should be said that the author is a recent apostate from that religion after a lifetime of belief. But the figure of Jesus that emerges is thoroughly sympathetic, if not quite the one we learnt about in Sunday School having been stripped of various dubious, if often biblical, accretions. (Kirkus UK)
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