Anthony Burgess, pseudonym of John Anthony Burgess Wilson (Manchester (England), 25 February 1917 – 22 november London, 1993) was a British writer. He worked as an education officer in Brunei and Malaysia after the Second World War. In 1959 there was a brain tumor diagnosed in him and he had a life expectancy of a few months. He gave the teaching at and became a full-time writer. In his career as a writer, he published more than 50 books in many genres including fiction and science fiction. He also wrote a James Joyce Handbook titled Here comes everybody. Anthony Burgess died of lung cancer.