Wilson, David Henry

views updated

WILSON, David Henry

WILSON, David Henry. British, b. 1937. Genres: Novels, Children's fiction, Plays/Screenplays, Translations. Career: University Lecturer, University of Constance, Germany, 1967-2000, and Bristol University, 1972-2000. Publications: NOVELS: Ashmadi, 1985. PLAYS: All the World's a Stage, 1968; The Make-Up Artist, 1973; On Stage, Mr. Smith, 1975; Monster Man, 1981; Gas and Candles and Other Plays, 1983; Are You Normal, Mr. Norman and Other Plays, 1984; Shylock's Revenge, 1986; We're Looking for Mary Pickford and Other Plays, 1987; The Coachman Rat, 1989; Der Fluch der achten Fee, 1989; Lear's Fool and the Tragedy of Lady Macbeth, 1994; Three Great British Farces, 2000; People in Cages, 2000; How to Make Your Theatre Pay, 2002. CHILDREN'S FICTION: Der Elefant Auf Papas Auto, 1972; Elephants Don't Sit on Cars, 1977; Never Say Moo to a Bull, 1978; The Fastest Gun Alive, and Other Night Adventures, 1978; How the Lion Lost His Lunch, 1980; Can a Spider Learn to Fly?, 1984; Superdog, 1984; Do Goldfish Play the Violin?, 1985; Superdog the Hero, 1986; There's a Wolf in My Pudding, 1986; Yucky Ducky, 1988; Superdog in Trouble, 1988; Gander of the Yard, 1989; Little Billy and the Wump, 1990; Please Keep off the Dinosaur, 1993; Gideon Gander Solves the World's Greatest Mysteries, 1993; Do Gerbils Go to Heaven?, 1996; The Castle of Inside Out, 1997; Never Steal Wheels from a Dog, 2000. TRANSLATIONS: The Cathedral of Monreale, 1965; Nepal: Art Treasures from the Himalayas, 1969; The Implied Reader, 1974; Act of Reading, 1978; New Perspectives in German Literary Criticism, 1979; Walter Pater, 1987; Sterne's Tristram Shandy, 1988; O. Wilde: Works of a Conformist Rebel, 1989; The 18th Century Mock-Heroic Poem, 1990; Wales, 1991; The Fictive and the Imaginary, 1993; East Anglia, 1994; The West Country, 2000; Kolomon Moser, 2002; Tibet: Turning the Wheel of Life, 2003; The Art Director's Handbook of Professional Magazine Design, 2003; Goya: To Every Story There Belongs Another, 2003. Address: 3 Beech Close, Hope Corner Ln, Taunton, Somerset TA2 7NZ, England.

About this article

Wilson, David Henry

Updated About encyclopedia.com content Print Article