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Andrew Norman Wilson (born in 1950)〔(Encyclopaedia Britannica )〕 is an English writer and newspaper columnist, known for his critical biographies, novels, works of popular history and religious views. He is an occasional columnist for the ''Daily Mail'' and former columnist for the London ''Evening Standard'', and has been an occasional contributor to the ''Times Literary Supplement'', ''New Statesman'', ''The Spectator'' and ''The Observer''. ==Life and work== Wilson was educated at Hillstone School, Great Malvern in Worcestershire, Rugby School and New College, Oxford. Destined originally for ordination in the Church of England, Wilson entered St Stephen's House, the High Church theological hall at Oxford, but left at the end of his first year. He married the Shakespeare scholar Katherine Duncan-Jones in 1971. They had two daughters—Emily Wilson (born 1971) and Beatrice "Bee" Wilson (born 1974), —and divorced in 1990. In the late 1980s, Wilson stated publicly that he was an atheist and published a pamphlet ''Against Religion'' in the Chatto & Windus CounterBlasts series; however, religious and ecclesiological themes continue to inform his work. For nearly 30 years he continued to be both a sceptic, and a prominent atheist. However, in April 2009, he published articles in the ''New Statesman'' and ''Daily Mail'' affirming his rediscovery of faith, and conversion to Christianity, attacking at the same time in the ''Daily Mail'' article both academic and media atheists. 〔(Why I believe again ) ''New Statesman'', 2 April 2009.〕 Wilson has covered his particular slant on biography and, to some extent, his take on Victorian era topics in ''God's Funeral'' and ''The Victorians'', which can be traced to this religious ambivalence. His books on Leo Tolstoy (Whitbread Award for best biography of 1988), C. S. Lewis, Hilaire Belloc and Jesus Christ are all simultaneously sympathetic to and critical of religious belief. His work, ''Dante in Love'' published in 2011, presents a study of the great Italian poet, Dante Alighieri, as an artist and philosopher, also depicting an in-depth portrait of medieval Florence to help readers understand the literary and cultural background which engendered the Tuscan's masterpiece, ''The Divine Comedy''. ''The Elizabethans'', described as "the exhilarating story of the Elizabethan age", was also published in 2011. Wilson has a reputation, gained early in his career, of being a "young fogey". He holds controversial views and presents them to entertaining effect, for example in his appearances on BBC Radio 4's ''Any Questions''.〔(BBC – BBC Radio 4 Programmes – Any Questions? )〕 His 2007 novel ''Winnie and Wolf'' was longlisted for the Man Booker Prize. His non-fiction has been widely praised. Kathryn Hughes described his 2002 book ''The Victorians'' as "a magnificent achievement: plucky, engaged and full of awe at the way we continue to live out its inheritance today". Wilson's ''Hitler: A Short Biography'', however, was heavily criticised in a review by the historian Richard J. Evans for significant factual inaccuracies, lack of original research and analysis, and personal biases. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「A. N. Wilson」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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