Birthdate: February 25, 1917
Sun Sign: Pisces
Birthplace: Harpurhey, Lancashire, England
Died: November 22, 1993
Anthony Burgess, a British writer and composer, was renowned for his dystopian satire A Clockwork Orange, which was adapted into a film by Stanley Kubrick in 1971. He authored several novels, including the Enderby quartet and Earthly Powers, and also wrote librettos and screenplays. Burgess served as a literary critic for publications such as The Observer and The Guardian, and was a skilled linguist who taught phonetics and translated various works. With over 250 musical compositions to his credit, he was nominated for the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1973.
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