Playboy Interview: Anthony Burgess
September, 1974
a candid conversation with the visionary author of "a clockwork orange"In 1959, John Anthony Burgess Wilson, an education officer for the British Colonial Service in Malaya, began suffering from headaches. Doctors imputed them to a brain tumor, told him he had only a year to live and invalided him home to England. Aided by an inborn Elizabethan prodigality--and "massive doses of Dexedrine and gin"--he wrote five and a half dazzling novels during his allotted twelvemonth, in a...
