A. N. Wilson was born in North Staffordshire, and taught literature for seven years at New College Oxford, where he won the Chancellor's English Essay Prize and the Ellerton Prize. He is the author of over twenty novels, and as many works of non-fiction. His biography of Tolstoy won the Whitbread Prize in 1988. His biography of Queen Victoria was published to critical acclaim. He is also the author of The Victorians and of God's Funeral, an account of how the Victorians lost their faith. He is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature, and a Member of the American Academy and Institute of Arts and Letters. He lives in London, and is the father of three daughters.
A book to treasure. A. N Wilson throws down the gauntlet on the
very first line, 'Darwin was wrong' he begins. What follows is a
sharply observed and wonderfully compelling analysis which evokes
the Victorian titan brilliantly and challenges received wisdom. A
work of scholarship that is hard to put down
*Deborah Cadbury*
A lucid, elegantly written and thought-provoking social and
intellectual history
*Evening Standard*
Hugely enjoyable . . . The picture of Darwin that emerges from this
biography is a mixed one . . . Wilson unpicks these contradictions
with a scientist's forensic skill and a novelist's imaginative
touch
*Spectator*
As a historian trying to put Darwin in the context of his time,
there is surely no better biographer than Wilson
*The Times*
Entertaining
*Observer*
As bold, audacious and entertaining as I knew it would be
*The Spectator, Books of the Year*
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