Wilson went to New College, Oxford, graduating in 1972. "Reporters arrived at the school gates, wanting to interview me, but my housemaster, wisely, would not let me talk to them," Wilson told Hunter Davies in 1993. The national press became interested in the story, with the Daily Express headlining its account "Red rebel in Tom Brown's school". While at Rugby, he wrote an article for the school magazine arguing that public schools should be abolished. He was first educated at St Dominic's Priory School in Stone before moving to Hillstone School (subsequently incorporated into Malvern College) in Great Malvern, Worcestershire, and then at Rugby School from the age of 13, where he read Mao and Marx in his spare time. Wilson was born in Stone in Staffordshire to a father who became the managing director of Wedgwood, the pottery company. He has been an occasional contributor to The Times Literary Supplement, New Statesman, The Spectator and The Observer. He is an occasional columnist for the Daily Mail and a former columnist for the London Evening Standard. Andrew Norman Wilson (born 27 October 1950) is an English writer and newspaper columnist known for his critical biographies, novels and works of popular history.
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