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B.S. Johnson

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born

February 05, 1933 in London, England, The United Kingdom

died

November 13, 1973

gender

male

website

http://www.bsjohnson.info/

genre

Literature & Fiction, Experimental

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B. S. Johnson (Bryan Stanley Johnson) was an English experimental novelist, poet, literary critic and film-maker.

Johnson was born into a working class family, was evacuated from London during World War II and left school at sixteen to work variously as an accounting clerk, bank junior and clerk at Standard Oil Company. However, he taught himself Latin in the evenings, attended a year's pre-university course at Birkbeck College, and with this preparation, managed to pass the university exam for King's College London.

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...more

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Average rating: 4.01 · 744 ratings · 101 reviews · 20 distinct works

	Christie Malry's Own Double Entry 4.14 avg rating — 309 ratings — published 1973 — 7 editions	My rating:
	The Unfortunates 3.98 avg rating — 182 ratings — published 1969 — 4 editions	My rating:
	House Mother Normal 4.02 avg rating — 61 ratings — published 1971 — 4 editions	My rating:
	Albert Angelo 4.03 avg rating — 60 ratings — published 1964 — 3 editions	My rating:
	B.S. Johnson Omnibus 4.34 avg rating — 35 ratings — published 2003	My rating:
	Trawl 3.25 avg rating — 20 ratings — published 1966 — 2 editions	My rating:
	Aren't You Rather Young To Be Writing Your Memoirs? 4.09 avg rating — 11 ratings — 2 editions	My rating:
	Travelling People 3.78 avg rating — 9 ratings — published 1963	My rating:
	See The Old Lady Decently 3.30 avg rating — 10 ratings — 2 editions	My rating:
	Everybody Knows Somebody Who's Dead 3.50 avg rating — 2 ratings	My rating:

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