About
John Robert Fowles, born on 31 March 1926 in Leigh-on-Sea (Essex) and died on 5 November 2005 in Lyme Regis (Dorset), was an English novelist and essayist. After studying French at Oxford, he taught in France and Greece, where the island of Spetsai inspired his novel The Magus. His first novel, The Collector (1963), was an immediate success and was adapted into film. His most famous work, The French Lieutenant's Woman (1969), a mock-Victorian novel with multiple endings, won the W. H. Smith Literary Award and was filmed in 1981. He also published essays and novellas, and served as curator of the Lyme Regis Museum. After suffering a stroke in the mid-1980s, he ceased writing.
* 1926-03-28 — † 2005-11-05
Major works
- The Collector (1963)novel
- The Magus (1965)novel
- The French Lieutenant's Woman (1969)novel
- The Ebony Tower (1974)short story collection
- Daniel Martin (1977)novel
Key milestones
- 1945Served in the Royal Marines.
- 1969The French Lieutenant's Woman won the W. H. Smith Literary Award.
- 2008The Times named him among the 50 greatest British writers since 1945.
Themes
freedom and determinismnature and environmentrole of the narrator and fictionpower relationstime and memory
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