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PENGUIN BOOKS GENTLEMEN IN ENGLAND A. N. Wilson was born in Staffordshire and grew up in Wales. The Sweets of Pimlico was his first növel and was awarded the John Llewelyn Rhys Memóriái Prize for 1978. He has written six other novels: UnguardecLHours; Kindly Light; The Healing Art (Penguin, 1982), which won the Somerset Maugham Prize for 1980, the Southern Arts Literature Prize for 1980 and the Arts Council National Book Award for 1981; Who Was Oswald Fish f (Penguin, 1983); Wise Virgin (Penguin, 1984), which received the W. H. Smith Annual Literary Award for 1983; and Scandal (Penguin, 1984). He has alsó written a study of Sir Walter Scott, The Laird of Abhotsford, which won the John Liewelyn Rhys Memóriái Prize for 1981, and biographies of John Milton and Hilaire Belloc, which are alsó published by Penguin. He has edited Sir Walter Scott's Ivanhoe for the Penguin Classics. He is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature.