The Resume

(February 25, 1917-November 25, 1993)
Died in London, England
Birth name is Jon Anthony Burgess Wilson
Died of cancer
Also known as Joseph Kell
Wrote 'The Malaysian Trilogy,' 'The Enemy in the Blanket,' 'Beds in the East,' 'English Literature,' 'The Doctor is Sick,' 'The Right to an Answer,' 'One Hand Clappin,' 'Devil of a State,' 'The Worm and the Ring,' 'The New Aristocrats,' 'Olive Trees of Justice,' 'The Wanting Seed,' 'A Clockwork Orange,' 'Honey for the Bears,' 'Inside Mr. Enderby,' 'The Novel Today,' 'The Eve of Saint Venus,' 'Language Made Plain,' 'Nothing Like the Sun,' 'The Man Who Robbed Poor Boxes,' 'Tremor of Intent,' 'Here Comes Everybody,' 'A Vision of Battlements,' 'James Joyce: A Shorter Finnegans Wake,' 'The Coanching-Days of England,' 'The Age of Grand Tour,' 'Tremor of Intent,' 'Daniel Defoe: The Journal of the Plague Year,' 'The Novel Now,' 'Enderby Outside,' 'Urgent Copy,' 'Malaysian Stories,' 'Shakespeare,' 'MF,' 'Edward Rostant: Cyrando De Bergeracm' 'Sophocles: Oedipus the King,' 'Joysprick,' 'Obscenity and the Arts,' 'Napoleon Symphony' and 'The Clockwork Testament'

Why he might be annoying:

He smoked.
He was known by his middle names.
His writings have been called 'controversial.'
The reason he became a writer was to establish some financial security for his wife and himself.

Why he might not be annoying:

Both his mother and his sister died of the Spanish flu when he was a baby.
He served in the Royal Army Medical Corps. during WW II.
While living in Malaysia, his wife was attacked by American soldiers (towards the end of WW II).
He composed music before becoming a writer.
He was wrongly diagnosed with a cerebral tumor. The doctor told me he had 12 months to live, but would in fact live for another 33 years.
He wrote 'A Clockwork Orange,' which is, arguably, the basis for the greatest Stanley Kubrick movie (of the same title).
He coined the term 'ultra-violence.'

Credit: His Name is Robert

Featured in the following Annoying Collections:

• Cannes Film Festival Jury Members (Ranked: 1975)
• His Name is Robert's Profiles [Series 5]
• I Attended University of Manchester [England]
• I Died in 1993 (Ranked: 76)
• I Got a Pet Cat or Twenty
• I Have a Brain Tumor [Menegioma]
• I Invented a Language
• I Publicly Trashed My Book’s Movie
• Insect Names
• Known By a Middle Name
• Look at Me, I've Been Caught Smoking
• Male Cigar Smokers
• Modern Library's 100 Best Novels of the 20th Century [1998] (Ranked: 65)
• Playboy Interview Subjects [1970s] (Ranked: 1974)
• Profiles 10501-10750 (Ranked: 10705)
• Satirists and Wits
• Stanley Kubrick Films
• Stanley Kubrick Turned My Novel into a Movie
• Time Magazine's All-Time 100 Novels [Authors]

Year In Review:

In 2023, Out of 2 Votes: 0% Annoying
In 2022, Out of 4 Votes: 50.0% Annoying
In 2021, Out of 19 Votes: 68.42% Annoying
In 2020, Out of 72 Votes: 43.06% Annoying
In 2019, Out of 2 Votes: 50.0% Annoying
In 2018, Out of 3 Votes: 66.67% Annoying
In 2017, Out of 2 Votes: 100% Annoying
In 2016, Out of 2 Votes: 0% Annoying
In 2015, Out of 8 Votes: 62.50% Annoying
In 2014, Out of 11 Votes: 45.45% Annoying
In 2013, Out of 7 Votes: 42.86% Annoying
In 2012, Out of 12 Votes: 33.33% Annoying
In 2011, Out of 20 Votes: 50.0% Annoying
In 2010, Out of 21 Votes: 66.67% Annoying
In 2009, Out of 17 Votes: 52.94% Annoying
In 2008, Out of 33 Votes: 45.45% Annoying
In 2007, Out of 81 Votes: 65.43% Annoying
In 2006, Out of 131 Votes: 42.75% Annoying
In 2005, Out of 206 Votes: 42.23% Annoying
In 2004, Out of 311 Votes: 44.69% Annoying