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B. S. Johnson (Bryan Stanley Johnson) (5 February 1933 - 13 November 1973) was an English experimental novelist, poet, literary critic and film-maker. February 5 is the 36th day of the year in the Gregorian Calendar. ...
1933 (MCMXXXIII) was a common year starting on Sunday (link will take you to calendar). ...
November 13 is the 317th day of the year (318th in leap years) in the Gregorian Calendar, with 48 days remaining. ...
1973 (MCMLXXIII) was a common year starting on Monday (the link is to a full 1973 calendar). ...
Johnson was born into a working class family, was evacuated from London during World War II and left school at sixteen to work as an accountant. However, he taught himself Latin in the evenings, and with this knowledge, managed to pass the university exam for King's College London. The term working class is used to denote a social class. ...
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Combatants Allies: • Poland, • UK & Commonwealth, • France/Free France, • Soviet Union, • USA, • China, ...and others Axis: • Germany, • Italy, • Japan, ...and others Casualties Military dead: 17 million Civilian dead: 33 million Total: 50 million Full list Military dead: 8 million Civilian dead: 4 million Total: 12 million Full list World War II...
Kings College London in London is the largest and second longest serving member college in the federal University of London, with 21,300 registered students (2003-04). ...
After he graduated with a 2:2, Johnson wrote a series of increasingly experimental and often acutely personal novels. Travelling People (1963) and Albert Angelo (1964) were relatively conventional (though the latter became famous for the cut-through pages to enable the reader to skip forward), but The Unfortunates (1969) was published in a box with no binding (readers could assemble the book any way they liked) and House Mother Normal (1971) was written in purely chronological order such that the various characters' thoughts and experiences would cross each other and become intertwined, not just page by page, but sentence by sentence. Johnson also made numerous experimental films, published poetry, and wrote reviews, short stories and plays. Albert Angelo (ISBN 0811210022) is the second novel written by the experimental novelist B. S. Johnson (1933-1973). ...
House Mother Normal (subtitle - A geriatric comedy) (1971) is a novel by the experimental writer B.S. Johnson. ...
A film adaptation of the last of the novels published while he was alive, Christie Malry's Own Double-Entry (1973) was released in 2000. This article is about the year 2000. ...
At the age of 40, increasingly depressed by his failure to succeed commercially, and beset by family problems, Johnson committed suicide. Johnson was largely unknown to the wider reading public at the time of his death, but has a growing cult following. Jonathan Coe's 2004 biography "Like a Fiery Elephant" (winner of the 2005 Samuel Johnson prize) has already led to a renewal of interest in Johnson's work. Jonathan Coe, born 1961 in Birmingham, is an English novelist and writer. ...
Bibliography (novels) - Travelling People (1963).
- Albert Angelo (1964).
- Trawl (1966).
- The Unfortunates (1969).
- House Mother Normal (1971).
- Christie Malry's Own Double Entry (1973).
- See the Old Lady Decently (1975).
Albert Angelo (ISBN 0811210022) is the second novel written by the experimental novelist B. S. Johnson (1933-1973). ...
House Mother Normal (subtitle - A geriatric comedy) (1971) is a novel by the experimental writer B.S. Johnson. ...
Selected filmography - You're Human Like the Rest of Them (1967).
- Paradigm (1969).
- Unfair (1970).
- Fat Man On A Beach (1973).
Biography Jonathan Coe. (2004) Like A Fiery Elephant: The Story of B.S. Johnson. Picador. Jonathan Coe, born 1961 in Birmingham, is an English novelist and writer. ...
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