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Bookmark or Share- John Fowles | Novelist, Naturalist, Philosopher | BritannicaJohn Fowles (born March 31, 1926, Leigh-on-Sea, Essex, England—died November 5, 2005, Lyme Regis, Dorset) was an English novelist, whose allusive and descriptive works combine psychological probings—chiefly of sex and love—with an interest in social and philosophical issues.
- Biography of John Fowles - John FowlesBiography of John Fowles. John Robert Fowles was born March 31, 1926 in Leigh-on-Sea, a small town located about 40 miles from London in the county of Essex, England. He recalls the English suburban culture of the 1930s as oppressively conformist and his family life as intensely conventional.
- John Fowles - WikipediaJohn Robert Fowles (/ f aʊ l z /; 31 March 1926 – 5 November 2005) was an English novelist of international renown, critically positioned between modernism and postmodernism. His work was influenced by Jean-Paul Sartre and Albert Camus, among others.
- John Fowles | The Booker PrizesJohn Fowles was the author of The Magus and The French Lieutenant’s Woman and managed to slip both postmodernism and existentialism into his widely read novels. Fowles, who had just missed the Second World War - he completed his training on 8 May 1945, VE Day - became an English language teacher in Greece before turning to fiction.
- John Fowles - Literature - British CouncilJohn Fowles enjoys a justifiably high standing as both a novelist of outstanding imaginative power (in some ways a modern-day Thomas Hardy, especially as a chronicler of his beloved Dorset), and as a highly self-conscious 'postmodernist' author who fully registers the artifice inherent in the act of writing, the fictiveness of fiction itself.
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