Happy birthday to Anthony Burgess, born John Anthony Burgess Wilson this day in 1917 in Harpurhey, Lancashire, England.
A writer with no apparent link to Henry Miller beyond their shared mastery of the English language, Burgess is, nonetheless, a certain Library’s staffer’s favorite writer, which may or may not be important, applicable, or even remotely interesting.
Burgess’s rich and genre-diverse oeuvre is staggering, even if one ignores “A Clockwork Orange.”