A. N. Wilson

Andrew Norman Wilson (born 27 October 1950) is an English writer and newspaper columnist renowned for his critical biographies of figures like Tolstoy, C. S. Lewis, and Queen Victoria, as well as over 20 novels including the Man Booker long-listed Winnie and Wolf. He has received major awards such as the Whitbread Prize for Biography (Tolstoy, 1988), Somerset Maugham Prize, and John Llewellyn Rhys Prize, and remains active with recent works like his 2024 biography of Goethe.com.