In universities and intellectual circles, academics can guarantee themselves popularity-or, which is just as satisfying, unpopularity-by being opinionated rather than by being learned.

A. N. Wilson

Andrew Norman Wilson (born 27 October 1950), is an English writer, known for his critical biographies, novels and works of popular and cultural history. After ten years as a teacher (first as a schoolmaster at Merchant Taylors, later teaching medieval literature at New College and St Hugh's Colleges, Oxford) he became a journalist and writer. He was Literary Editor of both The Spectator and the Evening Standard and contributed to the Daily Mail, Times Literary Supplement, New Statesman and The Observer

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