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A. N. WILSON, biographer, novelist, and historian, is the author of an award-winning biography of Tolstoy as well as lives of C. S. Lewis, Hilaire Belloc, and the apostle Paul. He has also written the bestselling Jesus and, most recently, The Victorians. He lives in North London.
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