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Wilson biographer Professor Tim Crook, author of The Secret Lives of a Secret Agent, provides additional insight into the context of Alec’s personal letters, and helps illustrate the innermost ...
Clip: Season 2019 | 2m 15s |. My List. Iain Glen, Ruth Wilson and Anna Symon discuss the mysterious, real-life character of Alexander Wilson. Aired: 04/02/19.
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Jul 31, 2018 · We know that Wilson was heavily influenced by Burns after the Kilmarnock Edition came out in 1786 – the name of Alexander Wilson of Paisley can be seen on the list of subscribers to the subsequent Edinburgh Edition of Poems, Chiefly in the Scottish Dialect. Just like Burns, Wilson could write as happily in high-blown English as in Scots.
Mar 31, 2019 · We do know for certain that Alexander Wilson was born in 1893, died in 1963 of a heart attack. He served as an MI6 agent during WWII, definitively working as an agent between the years of 1939 and ...
Alexander Wilson was a major spy fiction writer of the 1920s and 1930s but disappeared and published nothing more after 1940. His 9-year-old son was told he had been killed at El Alamein in 1942. More than 60 years later that young boy, Mike Shannon, asks Goldsmiths academic Tim Crook to find out more.
Jan 8, 2018 · From the Winter 2018 issue of Living Bird magazine. Subscribe now. More than two centuries ago in the swamps of North Carolina, ornithologist and author Alexander Wilson squatted to sketch a yellow-green bird with a neat black cap flitting about above him, catching insects. Wilson had always
Feb 27, 2011 · Tim discovers that Alexander Wilson wrote and published 20 more novels and three academic books, had been a popular and highly acclaimed espionage and thriller author of the 1920s and 30s and bridged the style and significance of John Buchan, Somerset Maugham, Eric Ambler, Ian Fleming, Graham Greene and John Le Carre.
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